''Sepiola pfefferi'' 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 northeastern Atlantic Ocean. Specifically, it occurs on the

continental shelf A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves were exposed by drops in sea level during glacial periods. The shelf surrounding an island ...

off the Faroe Islands and from southern Norway to Brittany in France. The depth range of this species is unknown.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. Female ''S. pfefferi'' are on average slightly larger than males. They grow to 13 mm and 12 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, respectively. The type specimen was collected in the North Sea () and is deposited in the Zoology Collection of the Natural History Museum, Berlin.Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
/ref> The validity of ''S. pfefferi'' has been questioned.

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Bobtail squid Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean Marine molluscs of Europe Taxa named by Georg Grimpe {{Sepiolida-stub