Striped+Pajama+Squid

__**Common Name:**__ Striped Pajama Squid

__**Scientific Name:**__ //Sepioloidea lineolata//

__**Phylum:**__ Mollusca

__**Class:**__ Cephalopoda

__**Location:**__ Striped Pajama Squids are only found from Eastern Australia (from southern Great Barrier Reef to southern New South Wales), central South Australia, and in southern Western Australia.

__**Size:**__ They can reach an approximate maximum size of 7cm.

__**Description of Habitat:**__ Striped Pajama Squids prefer shallow waters and inhabit sandy areas, especially seagrass beds and rocky rubble.

__**Living Requirements:**__ They must be able to burrow and bury themselves in sand during the day in order to hide from predators. They live on a diet of nocturnal shrimp.

__**Life Cycle:**__ Females lay clumps of large, white eggs- these eggs hatch and young squids are born already with their full stripes.

__**Male/Female Differences:**__ When these squids mate, if the female has already mated, the male uses a special lower arm to scoop out the previous males sperm.

__**Facts:**__
 * 1) Striped Pajama Squids can change the background color of their skin to a dark purple-brown.
 * 2) The function of the fingers of skin of their gill cavity openings is still unknown.
 * 3) When attacked this squid produces slime from the glands underneath its body.

__**Human Impact:**__ Divers have taken a keen interest in this squid species, however no great impact has resulted as of yet.

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