Little post horn squid
Spirula spirula
Category: Octopus & Squid
IUCN Conservation Status: LC - Least Concern - species is widespread and abundant, not currently at risk of extinction
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Spirulida
- Family
- Spirulidae
- Genus
- Spirula
Where to Find
Found in 61 diving areas across 36 countries and 8 regions.
- Bay of Islands, New Zealand - 11 records
- Goat Island & Hauraki Gulf, New Zealand - 42 records
- Sandy Island, Anguilla - 1 records
- Antigua South Coast, Antigua & Barbuda - 3 records
- Barbuda, Antigua & Barbuda - 3 records
- Abaco, Bahamas - 9 records
- Andros, Bahamas - 1 records
- Bimini, Bahamas - 13 records
- Long Island, Bahamas - 1 records
- Nassau & New Providence, Bahamas - 3 records
- South Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- West Coast, Barbados - 1 records
- North Shore, Bermuda - 7 records
- Salt Island & Cooper Island, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Virgin Gorda & Anegada, British Virgin Islands - 3 records
- Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands - 2 records
- Isla de la Juventud, Cuba - 1 records
- Jardines de la Reina, Cuba - 1 records
- Varadero, Cuba - 1 records
- Cabrits & Northern Coast, Dominica - 3 records
- Soufriere-Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica - 2 records
- Carriacou, Grenada - 3 records
- Southwest Coast, Grenada - 1 records
- Cousteau Reserve, Guadeloupe - 3 records
- Ocho Rios, Jamaica - 1 records
- Fajardo & East Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- La Parguera, Puerto Rico - 1 records
- Rincon & West Coast, Puerto Rico - 3 records
- St. Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis - 1 records
- Anse La Raye, St. Lucia - 1 records
- Soufriere & The Pitons, St. Lucia - 1 records
- St. Vincent, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 4 records
- Tobago Cays, St. Vincent & the Grenadines - 4 records
- Providenciales, Turks & Caicos - 1 records
- St. Croix, US Virgin Islands - 2 records
- St. Thomas & St. John, US Virgin Islands - 1 records
- Ambergris Caye, Belize - 10 records
- Turneffe Atoll, Belize - 5 records
- Caribbean Coast, Guatemala - 3 records
- Roatán, Honduras - 5 records
- Rarotonga, Cook Islands - 1 records
- Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea - 1 records
- Port Vila & Efate, Vanuatu - 2 records
- Lakshadweep, India - 5 records
- Diani Beach & South Coast, Kenya - 1 records
- North Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- South Ari Atoll, Maldives - 1 records
- Vaavu Atoll, Maldives - 2 records
- Flic en Flac & West Coast, Mauritius - 3 records
- Cape Town & Western Cape, South Africa - 2 records
- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - 2 records
- Sodwana Bay, South Africa - 2 records
- Hikkaduwa & South Coast, Sri Lanka - 2 records
- Trincomalee & East Coast, Sri Lanka - 1 records
- Zanzibar & Pemba, Tanzania - 1 records
- Cozumel, Mexico - 7 records
- Yucatán Cenotes, Mexico - 9 records
- California, United States - 2 records
- New England, United States - 1 records
- Salvador & Bahia, Brazil - 5 records
- Cenderawasih Bay, Indonesia - 1 records