Its arms are stout, more than twice the length of head, and the tentacle club is slim, with four rows of suckers, not extending away from the tips on to the stalk.

[7] In northern waters Todaropsis eblanae generally mate and spawn in the summer and early autumn months, i.e. from June through to November.

Hatching occurs in late autumn through to the early spring, i.e. from October up until March, producing juveniles in the first half of the year.

[8] Found in the eastern coastal waters of the North Atlantic and South Atlantic from Shetland to the Cape of Good Hope, and the Indian Ocean from the along the coasts of southern Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarenes north to the Timor Sea, and then along the western and south-eastern coasts of Australia.

[5] This squid is one of the most abundant cephalopods in the Celtic Sea, even so it is usually caught as a bycatch by trawlers fishing for other species.