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Euprymna scolopes

Hawaiian bobtail squid

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 342322ITIS 556020GBIF 2289092key worms:342322
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2026-08-05: itis_id 556020 via WoRMS external link

Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island.W CalCOFI holds 9 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2002 and 2002, as invert.R

9
observations
9
records
9
sampling events
2002
years
1
datasets
invert
life stages
3 cm
max length
Photograph of Euprymna scolopes
Photo · Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • 9 obs9 events2002invert
    name used: Euprymna scolopes Hawaiian bobtail squid · code 9525

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:342322%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 3 cm max
Hawaiian bobtail squid3 cm
US quarter2.4 cm

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Life stages invert
  • Ichthyoplankton invert

The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Euprymna
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist

WikidataiNaturalist

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗