Available wild-caught, these small cephalopods are found right along Australia’s east coast, from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Bass Strait and the eastern coast of Tasmania, in bays, estuaries and even brackish water, usually among seagrass to depths of about 50m.
They have large dark spots on their squat bodies with, yellow-pink colouring around the edges and large fins running half the length of their body.
Their name comes from organs on their ink sac which, fuelled by luminescent bacteria in the water, glow to help hide the Squid’s silhouette from predators.