Sepiolina nipponensis

Sepiolina nipponensis, also known as the Japanese bobtail squid, is a bobtail squid and one of two species in the genus Sepiolina. It is found in the Western Pacific in apparently widely separated populations, the most southerly of which is in the Great Australian Bight in South Australia and Western Australia, and there are populations from the Philippines northwards to Taiwan, Fujian and southern Honshū.^[1]

Sepiolina nipponensis
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiida
Suborder:	Sepiolina
Family:	Sepiolidae
Subfamily:	Heteroteuthidinae
Genus:	Sepiolina
Species:	S. nipponensis
Binomial name
Sepiolina nipponensis (Berry, 1911)[2]
Synonyms
Stoloteuthis nipponensis Berry, 1911

Description

The maximum size of adult Japanese bobtail squid is 2.5 cm in mantle length.^[3] The body consists of large fins and a short and dome-shaped mantle surrounded by an iridescent belt. The mantle cavity contains subcordate luminous organs. The arms are subequal with biserial suckers.