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Table 2 Summary of observations on mating in Sepiolinae

From: Observations on mating in Mediterranean Sepiola and Sepietta species and review of mating behaviour in Sepiolinae (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae)

Genus

Species

References

Environment

Figurative documentation

Notes

Sepiola

atlanticaa

Racovitza (1894)

A

Reported as Sepiola rondeletii

atlanticab

Levy (1912)

A

D

 

atlanticaa

Rodrigues et. al. (2009)

A

P

 

atlanticaa

Jones and Richardson (2010)

A

 

atlanticab

Goud et. al. (2019)

F

P

 

rondeletiic

Mangold-Wirz (1963)

 

D (general drawing for Sepiolinae and Rossiinae)

Seemingly not actually observed (description after Racovitza, 1894)

affinisb

Mangold-Wirz (1963)

A

  

affinisa

Mauris (1988)

A

D

 

affinisa

Present results

A

D

General drawing for all observed species

intermediaa

Present results

A

D

General drawing for all observed species

sp.c

Jaeckel (1958)

 

Not clear whether mating was actually observed

sp.b

Boletzky (1983)

A

Reported as Sepiola robusta

Sepietta

obscuraa

Present results

A

D

General drawing for all observed species

owenianac

Bergström and Summers (1983)

 

Seemingly not actually observed (description after Racovitza, 1894 and Mangold-Wirz, 1963)

Eumandya

parvaa

Drerup et al. (2020)

A

P

 

Euprymna

scolopesb

Moynihan (1983)

A

 

scolopesb

Singley (1983)

A

 

scolopesa

Hanlon et. al. (1997)

A

P

 

hyllebergia

Nabhitabhata et. al. (2005)

A

D and P

 

tasmanicaa

Squires et. al. (2013)

A and F

P

 
  1. Species: adetailed observations; bpartial observations; cquestionable. Environment: A = aquarium; F = field. Figurative documentation: D = drawings; P = photo