Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 15 genera in three or four subfamilies.

A gladius is absent in subfamily Heteroteuthidinae, and in subfamily Sepiolinae it is reduced, or absent like in genus Euprymna.

[2][3][4][5] A third subfamily is Rossiinae, and the genus Choneteuthis is considered to be Incertae sedis.

Though 72 species have been recognized in Sepiolidae, the validity of a few of them has been questioned.

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