#4658 · 🐌 snails, slugs & other molluscs
Atlantic Bobtail
🇳🇱 Dwerginktvis ·Sepiola atlantica
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what is it?
Sepiola atlantica , also known as the Atlantic bobtail , is a species of bobtail squid native to the northeastern Atlantic Ocean (65ºN to 35ºN), from Iceland, the Faroe Islands and western Norway to the Moroccan coast. There is a single record of this species from the Mediterranean Sea.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 287 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Atlantic Bobtail
- Nederlands
- Dwerginktvis
- scientific name
- Sepiola atlantica
- class
- Cephalopoda
- order
- Sepiolida
- family
- Sepiolidae
- IUCN Red List
- DD · data deficient
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 210
- sightings worldwide
- 287
- GBIF records in NL
- 727
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
IUCN in Dutch: onvoldoende gegevens. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 151486, Wikidata Q292467, GBIF 2289177, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.