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Marine Species Identification Guide for the St. Lawrence
Invertebrates • Species
Semirossia tenera
Lesser bobtail squid - Sépiole calamarette

Semirossia tenera
Characteristics:
• mottled chestnut-brown
• 8 short arms and 2 tentacles
• mantle as wide as it is long
• perimeter open all round (not fused with the head)
May be mistaken for: Bathypolypus arcticus - other Cephalopoda
Cephalopoda*
Family:
Sepiolidae
Type of measure:
Mantle mm
Maximum size:
50 mm
specimen identified  specimen identified
territory covered  territory covered    territory not covered  territory not covered

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