Inioteuthis

Inioteuthis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiolida
Family:	Sepiolidae
Subfamily:	Sepiolinae
Genus:	Inioteuthis Verrill, 1881
Species
See text.

Inioteuthis is a genus of bobtail squid comprising three species.

Species

Genus Inioteuthis

• Inioteuthis capensis Voss, 1962. Native to Namibia and South Africa.^[1]
• Inioteuthis japonica Orbigny, 1845. Native to China, Taiwan, and Japan.^[2]
• Inioteuthis maculosa Goodrich, 1896. Native to India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand, Taiwan, Maldives, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Yemen, and Somalia.^[3]

Species brought into synonymy

• Inioteuthis morsei Verrill, 1881: synonym of Euprymna morsei (Verrill, 1881)

References

1. Voss, G.L. 1962. South African cephalopods. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 36(4): 245–272.
2. Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.
3. Reid, A. & P. Jereb 2005. Family Sepiolidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 153–203.

External links

• CephBase: Inioteuthis
• Young, Richard E. and Michael Vecchione. 2004. Inioteuthis Verrill, 1881. Version 2 September 2004