Inioteuthis maculosa
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| Inioteuthis maculosa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiolida |
| Family: | Sepiolidae |
| Subfamily: | Sepiolinae |
| Genus: | Inioteuthis |
| Species: | I. maculosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Inioteuthis maculosa | |
Inioteuthis maculosa is a species of bobtail squid native to the Indo-Pacific. It occurs in the northern Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, and off India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.[3]
Females grow to 14 mm in mantle length, while males are not known to exceed 13 mm ML.[3]
The type specimen was collected off the Andaman Islands and is deposited at the Zoological Survey of India in Kolkata.[4]
