Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Sepiida > Suborder Sepiolina > Superfamily Sepioloidea > Family Sepiolidae > Subfamily Heteroteuthinae > Genus Stoloteuthis

Stoloteuthis leucoptera (A. E. Verrill, 1878)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stoloteuthis*	A. E. Verrill, 1881	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Sepiola leucoptera*	A. E. Verrill, 1878	synonym
*Stoloteuthis leucopterus*	(A. E. Verrill, 1878)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: butterfly bobtail squid; leucoptera bobtail squid sources: van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;Jereb, P.; Roper, C. F. E. (2005). An annotated an illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1: Chambered nautilusses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. 4(1). FAO, Rome. 262p., 9 colour plates.

French: sépiole leucoptère sources: Jereb, P.; Roper, C. F. E. (2005). An annotated an illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1: Chambered nautilusses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. 4(1). FAO, Rome. 262p., 9 colour plates.

German: Schmetterlingstintenfisch sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Spanish, Castillian: globito leucóptero

Literature

basis of record	Reid, A. & Jereb, P. (2005). Family Sepiolidae. pp. 153-203, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.
additional source	CephBase
additional source	Vechione, M., C.F.E. Roper and M.J. Sweeney. 1989. Marine flora and fauna of the eastern United States. Mollusca: Cephalopoda. NOAA Technical Report. NMFS 73. 23 p.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Stoloteuthis leucoptera (A. E. Verrill, 1878). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157037