Southern Pygmy Squid

Taxobox
name = Southern Pygmy Squid


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Idiosepiidae
genus = "Idiosepius"
species = "I. notoides"
binomial = "Idiosepius notoides"
binomial_authority = Berry, 1921
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The Southern Pygmy Squid ("Idiosepius notoides") is a species of bobtail squid native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, off southern and eastern Australia. It inhabits shallow, inshore waters.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.]

Females grow to 25 mm in mantle length (ML), while males are not known to exceed 15.8 mm ML.

The type specimen was collected off Goolwa, South Australia and is deposited at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide. [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

References

Further reading

*Eyster, L.S. & L.M. van Camp 2003. PDFlink| [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/refdb/pdf/7817.pdf Extracellular lipid droplets in "Idiosepius notoides", the southern pygmy squid.] |164 KiB "Biological Bulletin" (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA) 205(1): 47-53.
*Tracey, S.R., M.A. Steer & G.T. Pecl 2003. PDFlink| [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/refdb/pdf/7979.pdf Life history traits of the temperate mini-maximalist "Idiosepius notoides", (Cephalopoda: Sepioidea).] |125 KiB "Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom" 83: 1297-1300.

External links

* [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/spdb/genlinks.cfm?CephID=183 GenBank Links for Genetic Information on "Idiosepius notoides"]