Sepietta petersi
Sepietta petersi, also known as the mysterious bobtail, is a species of bobtail squid native to the Mediterranean Sea. A doubtful record of S. petersi also exists from the Atlantic Ocean off Morocco.[1]
| Sepietta petersi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiolidae |
| Subfamily: | Sepiolinae |
| Genus: | Sepietta |
| Species: | S. petersi |
| Binomial name | |
| Sepietta petersi (Steenstrup, 1887) | |
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The type specimen was collected in the Adriatic Sea and is deposited at the Zoologiska Museet in Uppsala, Sweden.[2]
S. petersi has been described as a doubtful species and was considered a senior synonym of Sepietta obscura by Kir Nesis.[3] A redescription of S. petersi and S. obscura is needed to determine the status of these two taxa.[1] Other authorities consider it to be a synonym of Sepietta oweniana.[4]
References
- Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
- Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
- Nesis, K.N. 1987. Cephalopods of the World: squid, cuttlefish, octopuses and their allies. Neptune City, New Jersey, T.F.H. Publications Inc. Ltd., 351 pp.
- Julian Finn (2016). "Sepietta oweniana (d'Orbigny [in Ferussac & d'Orbigny], 1839-1841)". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
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