Hawaiian Bobtail

Euprymna scolopes

Cephalopods
IUCN: Data deficient

Usual depth40–287 m
Water temperature25–29 °C
Best monthsApril, July, and October
How commonRare

Photo credit: (c) Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY · iNaturalist

About this species

Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island. The type specimen was collected off the Hawaiian Islands and is located at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

Text from the Wikipedia article “Euprymna scolopes”, 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: 2 records
February: 2 records
March: 5 records
April: 11 records
May: 6 records
June: 6 records
July: 8 records
August: 7 records
September: 2 records
October: 8 records
November: 7 records
December: 0 records

Depth and water temperature

Depth

Mostly recorded at 40–287 m · Deepest record: 1,000 m

20–30 m: 1 records
30–40 m: 1 records
40–50 m: 1 records
50–60 m: 0 records
60–70 m: 0 records
70–80 m: 0 records
80–90 m: 0 records
90–100 m: 0 records
100–110 m: 0 records
110–120 m: 5 records
120–130 m: 2 records
130+ m: 13 records

Water temperature

Recorded in surface water of 25–29 °C

24–26 °C: 49 records
26–28 °C: 0 records
28–30 °C: 1 records

Photos

Names and classification

English: Hawaiian Bobtail, Hawaiian Bobtail Squid

Names in 1 more languages

Japanese: ハワイミミイカ

Similar species

Southern bobtail squid
Euprymna tasmanica
Double-ear bobtail
Euprymna berryi
Bobtail squid
Euprymna hyllebergi
Globito mimika
Euprymna morsei
Euprymna stenodactyla
Amphorateuthis alveatus

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).
64 open-data records from 1902 to 2024.
Species data updated November 2, 2026.

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