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Rondeletiola minor

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Kingdom
  
Subfamily
  
Phylum
  
Rank
  
Species

Family
  
Scientific name
  
Rondeletiola minor

Higher classification
  
Rondeletiola

Order
  
Bobtail squid

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Genus
  
RondeletiolaNaef, 1921

Similar
  
Sepietta oweniana, Bobtail squid, Sepietta, Sepiolidae, Sepiola rondeleti

Rondeletiola minor, also known as the Lentil Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Its natural range covers the northwest of Spain, Portugal, and the eastern, central and western Mediterranean Sea (including the Ligurian Sea, northern and southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Strait of Sicily, Gulf of Taranto, Adriatic Sea, north Aegean Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea) to the southeastern Atlantic Beguela Current off Namibia.

R. minor grows to a mantle length (ML) of 23 mm.

The type specimen was collected in the Tyrrhenian Sea and is deposited at the Stazione Zoologica di Napoli in Naples.

References

Rondeletiola minor Wikipedia