''Neorossia leptodons'' is a species of

bobtail squid Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone. They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally qui ...

native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, from New South Wales () to South Australia (). It lives at depths from 130 to 1,110 m.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. ''N. leptodons'' exhibits sexual dimorphism. Females grow to 77.5 mm in

mantle A mantle is a piece of clothing, a type of cloak. Several other meanings are derived from that. Mantle may refer to: *Mantle (clothing), a cloak-like garment worn mainly by women as fashionable outerwear **Mantle (vesture), an Eastern Orthodox ve ...

length (ML), while males are not known to exceed 42 mm ML. The type specimen was collected in the Great Australian Bight, South Australia ( to ). It is deposited at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne.Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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Bobtail squid Molluscs described in 1992 Taxa named by Amanda Reid (malacologist) {{sepiolida-stub