Top Results for Sepiolidae

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...

Rossia moelleri is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, also called the Arctic bobtail squid. It inhabits northern Atlantic and Arctic waters, including parts of Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Svalbard, and the Kara Sea, and is recorded from about 17 to 250 meters. It is a benthic s...

Rondeletiola minor is a small bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, a group of compact cephalopods that spend much of their time near the seabed or in the lower water column. It is recorded from the Mediterranean Sea and the northeastern Atlantic and has the rounded body, fins, and ventral light-p...

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.

Sepiolina nipponensis, commonly called the Japanese bobtail squid, is a small bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae. It is recorded from the western Pacific, including waters around southern Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and parts of the Australian region, and adults reach about 2.5 centimeters i...

Sepioloidea pacifica is a marine cephalopod currently accepted as a species in the family Sepiadariidae. It was originally described as Sepiola pacifica from material collected near New Zealand, and its known range extends through the southern Pacific Ocean. The species is a small inshore bottletail...

Inioteuthis japonica is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae. It is native to the western Pacific, with records from waters around China, Taiwan, and southern Japan. The species is a small marine cephalopod rather than a true cuttlefish, despite the compact body and rounded fins typic...

Sepiola atlantica is a small bobtail squid found in parts of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It is a benthic or near-bottom cephalopod that lives in coastal marine habitats rather than occupying the open ocean throughout its life. The species is of interest to marine zoolo...

Euprymna tasmanica is a small bobtail squid commonly called the southern dumpling squid. It is native to shallow coastal waters around southern Australia and Tasmania, where it lives on or near the seafloor. Like other bobtail squids, it has a compact body and a light-producing organ associated with...

Rossia pacifica, commonly called the Pacific bobtail squid, is a small marine cephalopod in the family Sepiolidae. It inhabits the North Pacific, with records extending from waters around Japan across the northern Pacific to the coast of California. The species is associated with the seafloor and ne...

Sepiola rondeleti is a small bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae. It occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic and is associated with shallow coastal habitats. The species name refers to Guillaume Rondelet, a sixteenth-century French naturalist whose work included descriptions of m...

Rossia macrosoma is a broad-bodied bobtail squid found in the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is a benthic cephalopod in the family Sepiolidae, meaning that it is associated with the sea floor rather than living exclusively in open water. The species was originally described by...

Sepiola affinis is a species of bobtail squid native to the Mediterranean Sea and nearby northeastern Atlantic waters. It belongs to the family Sepiolidae, a group of small cephalopods that commonly live near the sea floor. The species was scientifically described by Antoine Risso in 1854 and is rel...

Euprymna berryi, known as Berry's bobtail squid, is a small bobtail squid of the Indo-Pacific region. Its reported range extends from the Red Sea eastward to waters around Japan, and the species is named after the American malacologist Samuel Stillman Berry. It belongs to the family Sepiolidae and i...

Euprymna morsei is a small bobtail squid found in coastal waters around Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. Like other members of the genus Euprymna, it is associated with a light organ that houses bioluminescent bacterial symbionts. The species belongs to the family Sepiolidae and is relevant to rese...

Heteroteuthis dispar is a small bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, associated with Atlantic marine waters. It uses a defensive form of bioluminescence: when threatened, it can release ink that produces light, creating a luminous cloud that may distract or confuse predators. The species belongs...

Euprymna hyllebergi is a small bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, described from the Indo-Pacific. It is distinguished from closely related bobtail squids through a combination of morphological characters and molecular genetic evidence, rather than by a single visible trait. This approach is us...

Semirossia patagonica is a small marine bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, accepted as a species of the genus Semirossia. Smith described it in 1881 under the original name Rossia patagonica, based on material from Patagonia. Its documented distribution covers the southwestern Atlantic from off...

Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis is a small deep-water bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae, originally described by Berry in 1909 as Stephanoteuthis hawaiiensis. It is associated with the central and western Pacific, with records from Hawaii and other Indo-Pacific localities, and grows to about 30 milli...

[Neorossia caroli](https://obis.org/taxon/141447), the Carol bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae. It was described by Joubin in 1902 and is an accepted species in current taxonomic databases, with Rossia caroli recorded as a synonym. It is a bottom-living deep-water...

Stoloteuthis leucoptera, described by Addison Emery Verrill in 1878 and known as the butterfly bobtail squid, is a small sepiolid squid recorded from the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the southwestern Indian Ocean. It has a short, rounded body, paired fins, a broad web joining the arms,...