Sepia bidhaia

Taxobox
name = "Sepia bidhaia"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. bidhaia"
binomial = "Sepia bidhaia"
binomial_authority = Reid, 2000
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"Sepia bidhaia" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, specifically the waters off the Great Barrier Reef (coord|17|20|S|146|41.5|E|scale:250000to coord|22|07|S|153|19|E|scale:250000). It lives at a depth of between 200 and 304 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.]

Females of this species are slightly larger than males. They grow to a mantle length of 57 mm and 37 mm, respectively.

The type specimen was collected near Queensland, Australia (coord|17|55.8|S|146|58.2|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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