Sepia bathyalis

Taxobox
name = "Sepia bathyalis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. bathyalis"
binomial = "Sepia bathyalis"
binomial_authority = Khromov, Nikitina & Nesis, 1991
synonyms =

"Sepia bathyalis" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, specifically northwestern and southwestern Madagascar. It lives at a depth of between 300 and 500 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. bathyalis" grows to a mantle length of 80 mm.

The type specimen was collected near Madagascar (coord|22|19|S|43|06|E|scale:250000 to coord|22|23|S|43|06|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Zoological Museum in Moscow. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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