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Sepiolidae
Sign in to saveSepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 22 genera in three or four subfamilies. A gladius is absent in subfamily Heteroteuthidinae, and in subfamily Sepiolinae it is reduced, or absent like in genus Euprymna. A third subfamily is Rossiinae, and the genus Choneteuthis is considered to be incertae sedis. Though 79 species have been recognized in the family Sepiolidae, the validity of a few of them has been questioned.
Species
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FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderSepiida
- FamilySepiolidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 442
- With media
- 2
- Family
- Sepiolidae
- Collections
- USNM, CAS, NMV, MNHN, SIO
- Recorded in
- United States, Japan, Philippines, Australia, Nouvelle-Caledonie, Canada, Antarctica, Thailand
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Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 22 genera in three or four subfamilies. A gladius is absent in subfamily Heteroteuthidinae, and in subfamily Sepiolinae it is reduced, or absent like in genus Euprymna. A third subfamily is Rossiinae, and the genus Choneteuthis is considered to be incertae sedis. Though 79 species have been recognized in the family Sepiolidae, the validity of a few of them has been questioned.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sepiolidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.