Koch's bobtail
Sepiadarium kochi
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Sepiida
- Family
- Sepiadariidae
- Genus
- Sepiadarium
- Species
- Sepiadarium kochi
Koch's bobtail (Sepiadarium kochi) is a small, round bottletail squid with a mottled body that hides in the sand by day and hunts at night.
Reaching about 2-3 cm in mantle length, it can change color quickly and produces sticky slime when disturbed.
It is commonly seen on night dives over the sand in the Philippines.