Sepietta oweniana
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Sepietta oweniana from the Mediterranean Sea (27 mm ML, 29 mm ML) |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiolida |
| Family: | Sepiolidae |
| Subfamily: | Sepiolinae |
| Genus: | Sepietta |
| Species: | S. oweniana |
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Sepietta oweniana (Orbigny, 1839 in 1839–1841) |
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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.
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.
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