Order Sepiolida Subfamily Sepiolinae Rank Species | Higher classification Sepietta | |
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Similar Sepietta, Cephalopod, Sepiolidae, Rondeletiola minor, Bobtail squid | ||
Sepietta oweniana
Sepietta oweniana, also known as the Common Bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, its natural range strecthes from Norway to the Faroe Islands; Morocco and the Madeira Islands south to Mauritania; and in the Mediterranean it is present in the Ligurian Sea, Strait of Sicily, Aegean Sea, Adriatic Sea, Sea of Marmara, and Levantine Sea. A single record exists from Visakhapatam in the Indian Ocean.
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S. oweniana grows to a maximum mantle length (ML) of 50 mm in the North Sea. Specimens from the Mediterranean Sea are smaller; males grow to 35 mm ML, females to 40 mm ML.
Squid sepietta oweniana
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Sepietta oweniana Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA