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Order · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Sepiolida

WoRMS 157033ITIS 555708key worms:157033
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2026-08-05: itis_id 555708 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Margot Michaud · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Euprymna scolopes

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Sepiolida
Photo · Christopher Mark · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Bobtail squid are cephalopods belonging to the monotypic superfamily Sepioloidea of the order Sepiolida. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than the similar-looking cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone.W CalCOFI holds 10 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, across 2 taxa under it.R

10
observations
10
records
2002
years
1
datasets
2
species under it

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:157033")