Sepia chirotrema

Taxobox
name = "Sepia chirotrema"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Sepia"
species = "S. chirotrema"
binomial = "Sepia chirotrema"
binomial_authority = Berry, 1918
synonyms =
*"Solitosepia hendryae"
Cotton, 1929

"Sepia chirotrema" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Indo-Pacific, specifically from Investigator Strait, southern Australia (coord|35|25|S|137|22|E|scale:250000) to
Dirk Hartog Island, western Australia (coord|25|45|S|113|03|E|scale:250000). It lives at a depth of between 120 and 210 m.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.]

"S. chirotrema" grows to a mantle length of approximately 200 mm.

The type specimen was collected in the Investigator Strait area (coord|35|25|S|137|22|E|scale:250000), south of Kangaroo Island (coord|35|50|S|137|15|E|scale:250000). It was deposited at the Australian Museum in Sydney but no longer exists. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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