Inioteuthis maculosa

Taxobox
name = "Inioteuthis maculosa"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Inioteuthis"
species = "I. maculosa"
binomial = "Inioteuthis maculosa"
binomial_authority = Goodrich, 1896
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"Inioteuthis maculosa" is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific. It occurs in the northern Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and off India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. "In:" P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. "Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae)". FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.]

Females grow to 14 mm in mantle length, while males are not known to exceed 13 mm ML.

The type specimen was collected off the Andaman Islands and is deposited at the Zoological Survey of India in Kolkata. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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