Atlantic Bobtail

Taxobox
name = Atlantic Bobtail

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image_caption = Live specimen of "Sepiola atlantica" from the Belgian continental shelf.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiolida
familia = Sepiolidae
subfamilia = Sepiolinae
genus = "Sepiola"
species = "S. atlantica"
binomial = "Sepiola atlantica"
binomial_authority = Orbigny, 1839
("in" Férussac & Orbigny, 1834–1848)
synonyms =

The Atlantic Bobtail ("Sepiola atlantica") is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (65ºN to 35ºN), from Iceland, the Faroe Islands andwestern Norway to the Moroccan coast. There is a single record of this species from the Mediterranean Sea.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.]

Both sexes of "S. atlantica" grow to around 21 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected in the Bay of Biscay and is deposited at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

References

Further reading

*fr icon Adam, W. 1934. Notes sur les céphalopodes. IV. La variation de la radule chez "Sepiola atlantica" d'Orbigny 1839. "Bull. Mus. Roy. Hist. Nat. de Belgique" 10(24): 1-4.
*fr icon Boucaud-Camou, E. Les mucopolysaccharides dans le tube digestif de "Sepiola atlantica" d'Orbigny. "Archives De Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale" 108(2): 333-346.
*Duncan, G. & P.B. Pynsent 1979. An analysis of the wave forms of photoreceptor potentials in the retina of the cephalopod "Sepiola atlantica". "Journal of Physiology" 288: 171-188.

External links

* [http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/spdb/genlinks.cfm?CephID=121 Genetic Information on "Sepiola atlantica"]