Sepioloidea lineolata
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| Sepioloidea lineolata | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiadariidae |
| Genus: | Sepioloidea |
| Species: | S. lineolata |
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Sepioloidea lineolata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) |
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Sepioloidea lineolata, also known as the striped pyjama squid, is a bobtail squid native to the southern Indo-Pacific; it occurs off eastern, southern and western Australia. The species is found on sand and amongst seagrass in waters up to 20 metres (66 ft) in depth.
S. lineolata is small and rounded in appearance. It grows to 50 millimetres (2.0 in) in mantle length. The arms are short and webbed. Thin dark brown longitudinal stripes cover the entire body, which has a cream background. The eyes protrude from the mantle and have an orange upper lid. The overall appearance resembles a dumpling; another common name for this species is the Striped Dumpling Squid.
It tends to bury itself in sand so that only the top of its head is visible.
Along with the Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish, S. lineolata is suspected to be one of the few poisonous cephalopods.
The type specimen of S. lineolata was collected in Jervis Bay, southeastern Australia. It is deposited at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
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