Idiosepius thailandicus

Taxobox
name = "Idiosepius thailandicus"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Idiosepiidae
genus = "Idiosepius"
species = "I. thailandicus"
binomial = "Idiosepius thailandicus"
binomial_authority = Chotiyaputta, Okutani & Chaitiamvong, 1991
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"Idiosepius thailandicus" is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific waters off Thailand.Reid, A. 2005. Family Idiosepiidae. "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. 208–210.] [Chotiyaputta, C., T. Okutani & S. Chaitiamvong 1991. A new pygmy cuttlefish from the Gulf of Thailand "Idiosepius thailandicus" n. sp. (Cephalopoda: Idiosepiidae). "Venus, the Japanese Journal of Malacology" 50(3): 165-174.]

Females grow to 10 mm in mantle length (ML), while males are not known to exceed 7 mm ML. [Okutani, T. 1995. "Cuttlefish and squids of the world in color". Publication for the 30th anniversary of the foundation of the National Cooperative Association of Squid Processors.]

The type specimen was collected in the Gulf of Thailand and is deposited at the Marine Fisheries Division in Bangkok. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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