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Euprymna scolopes, commonly known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a small squid species native to Hawaii’s coastlines. It's notable for its symbiotic relationship with *Vibrio fischeri* bacteria, which produce bioluminescence allowing the squid to create a light organ used for camouflage and attra...

The striped pyjama squid (Sepioloidea lineolata) is a small species of bobtail squid native to the shallow coastal waters of southern Australia. Despite the name, it is taxonomically a sepiolid, closely related to cuttlefish, and usually measures only a few centimeters in mantle length. The cephalop...

The Atlantic bobtail squid is a small marine cephalopod belonging to the family Sepiolidae, found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. This benthic species inhabits shallow coastal waters, where it buries itself in sand or mud during the day. It is well known for its mutuali...

The southern dumpling squid is a small species of bobtail squid native to the shallow coastal waters of southern and eastern Australia. It is a nocturnal predator that hides in the sand during the day. This species is extensively used as a model organism in biological research due to its mutualistic...

Rossia pacifica, the Pacific bobtail squid, is a small sepiolid squid of the North Pacific Ocean, ranging from the Bering Sea and Alaska to Baja California and across to Japan. It is a benthic species typically found on soft sediments such as mud and sand at depths of up to approximately 500 meters....

Rossia megaptera is a species of bobtail squid belonging to the family Sepiolidae, inhabiting the cold, deep waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It is a benthic cephalopod known for its proportionally large, rounded fins, which are the largest relative to body size within its genus. Like...

A small sepiolid bobtail squid inhabiting cold North Atlantic and sub-Arctic shelf waters, notable for its broad circumpolar distribution in high-latitude seas.

A small sepiolid bobtail squid of the Mediterranean Sea and northeastern Atlantic, among the smallest cephalopods regularly recorded from European waters.

A bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae found across Indo-Pacific coastal waters, distinguished by its notably slender arm tips among Euprymna species.

A small bobtail squid of the family Sepiolidae found in Indo-Pacific waters including Australia and Japan, named for its iridescent coloration.

A bobtail squid of the family Sepiolidae found in the Indo-Pacific, named after the U.S. Fish Commission steamer Albatross that collected the type specimens.

A small bobtail squid (family Sepiolidae) found in coastal waters of Japan and the western Pacific, with a species name reflecting its Japanese origin.

A sepiolid squid closely related to Sepioloidea lineolata, found in Pacific Ocean waters and representing one of few members of this small Indo-Pacific genus.

A sepiolid bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific, found from Japan southward through Southeast Asia, inhabiting shallow coastal and continental shelf waters.

The Atlantic bobtail squid, a small species of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea and among the most frequently encountered bobtail squids in European waters.

The southern dumpling squid, a small bobtail squid native to southern Australian and Tasmanian coastal waters and widely studied for its mating behavior.

Rossia pacifica, commonly known as the Pacific bobtail squid, is a small marine cephalopod found in the North Pacific Ocean from Japan to California.

A small bobtail squid of the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic named after 16th-century French naturalist Guillaume Rondelet, common in shallow coastal habitats.

Rossia macrosoma is a broad-bodied bobtail squid inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean, originally described by Delle Chiaje in 1829.

Sepiola affinis is a species of bobtail squid native to the Mediterranean Sea, first scientifically described by Antoine Risso in 1854.

Berry's bobtail squid, a small Indo-Pacific species named after American malacologist Samuel Stillman Berry, ranging from the Red Sea to Japanese waters.

A bobtail squid of coastal Japan and East Asia, one of several Euprymna species that harbor bioluminescent bacterial symbionts in a dedicated light organ.

Heteroteuthis dispar is a deep-sea bobtail squid notable for ejecting a cloud of luminescent ink to evade predators, first described by Christian Ehrenberg in 1834.

A bobtail squid described from the Indo-Pacific, distinguished from cryptic congeners through combined morphological and molecular genetic analysis.

Semirossia patagonica is a small seabob squid native to the southwestern Atlantic Ocean off the coasts of Argentina and the Falkland Islands, described by E.A. Smith in 1881.

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis is a species of deep-sea bobtail squid native to the central Pacific Ocean around the Hawaiian Islands, first described by Berry in 1909.

Neorossia caroli, commonly called the Carol bobtail squid, is a deep-water cephalopod found in the Atlantic Ocean that was described by Louis Joubin in 1902.

Stoloteuthis leucoptera is a diminutive species of bobtail squid found in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean, originally described by Vérany in 1837.