Sepiella cyanea is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, from Port Elizabeth and Durban north to central Mozambique (26ºN) and Madagascar. It lives at depths of 13 to 73 m.[1]
| Sepiella cyanea | |
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| Sepiella cyanea cuttlebone at Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiidae |
| Genus: | Sepiella |
| Species: | S. cyanea
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| Binomial name | |
| Sepiella cyanea Robson, 1924
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Sepiella cyanea grows to 80 mm in mantle length.[1]
The type specimen was collected off Natal, South Africa and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Reid, A., P. Jereb, & C.F.E. Roper 2005. Family Sepiidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 57–152.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
External links
edit- "CephBase: Sepiella cyanea". Archived from the original on 2005-08-17.
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