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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.
Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) [1] are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone . They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small (typical male mantle length being between 1 and 8 cm (0.39 and 3.15 in)).
Euprymna tasmanica (Pfeffer, 1884), southern dumpling squid The species listed above with an asterisk (*) are nomen dubium and need further study to determine if they are valid species or synonyms, while a double asterisk (**) marks a taxon inquirendum .
Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this ...
Heteroteuthis hawaiiensis is a species of bobtail squid native to the central and western Pacific Ocean.It occurs in waters off Hawaii, Bonin, the Ryukyu Islands, Indonesia, and the Great Australian Bight.
Scientific classification; Domain: ... Sepiolinae is a subfamily of bobtail squid encompassing 5 genera and more than 30 species. ... Hawaiian Bobtail Squid;
Sagittal section of the large eye-like light-producing organ of Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes. The organ houses symbiotic Aliivibrio fischeri bacteria. In the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) light is produced in a large and complex two-lobed light organ inside the squid's mantle cavity. At the top of the organ (dorsal ...
The Hawaiian bobtail squid, its photophores populated with Aliivibrio fischeri A. fischeri are globally distributed in temperate and subtropical marine environments . [ 14 ] They can be found free-floating in oceans, as well as associated with marine animals, sediment, and decaying matter. [ 14 ]