Double-ear bobtail
Euprymna berryi
- Water temperature20–29 °C
- Best monthsMarch, April, and May
- How commonRare
Photo credit: (c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
About this species
Euprymna berryi, commonly called hummingbird bobtail squid or Berry's bobtail squid among various other vernacular names, is a species of mollusc cephalopod in the family Sepiolidae.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Euprymna berryi”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 28 records
- February: 19 records
- March: 44 records
- April: 43 records
- May: 46 records
- June: 20 records
- July: 20 records
- August: 33 records
- September: 28 records
- October: 29 records
- November: 39 records
- December: 28 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–29 °C
Photos
(c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
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(c) Georgina Jones, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) · CC BY-SA · iNaturalist 
no rights reserved · CC0 1.0 · iNaturalist 
(c) Dan Schofield, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Jay Paroline, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist 
(c) Kai Squires, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist
Names and classification
- English
- Double-ear bobtail, Humming-bird bobtail squid, Berry's Bobtail, Berry's Bobtail Squid, double-ear bobtail, Humming-bird Bobtail, Hummingbird Bobtail, humming-bird bobtail squid
Names in 4 more languages
- Spanish
- Calamar rabicorto de Berry, globito colibri
- French
- sépiole colibri
- Japanese
- niyori-mimi-ika, ニヨリミミイカ
- Simplified Chinese
- Bèi-Ruì-Shì-Sì-Pán-Êr-Wu-Zéi, leung yee jai, 柏氏四盤耳烏賊, 目斗仔
Similar species
Southern bobtail squidEuprymna tasmanica
Hawaiian BobtailEuprymna scolopes
- Bobtail squid
Euprymna hyllebergi
- Globito mimika
Euprymna morsei
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 136 open-data records from 1906 to 2012.
- Species data updated November 2, 2026.
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