Sepiola knudseni

Sepiola knudseni is a species of bobtail squid native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, specifically northwest and west Africa, from the Canary Islands to the Gulf of Guinea. It lives on the inner continental shelf. S. knudseni lives at depths of 32 to 90 m.^[3]

Sepiola knudseni
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiolida
Family:	Sepiolidae
Subfamily:	Sepiolinae
Genus:	Sepiola
Species:	S. knudseni
Binomial name
Sepiola knudseni Adam, 1983[2]

Females of this species are on average considerably larger than males. They grow to 18 mm and 8.5 mm in mantle length, respectively.^[3]

The type specimen was collected in the Atlantic Ocean (06°17′N 03°27′E) and is deposited at the Zoologisk Museum of the Kobenhavns Universitet in Copenhagen.^[4]