Sepia gibba

Taxobox
name = "Sepia gibba"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Sepia"
species = "S. gibba"
binomial = "Sepia gibba"
binomial_authority = Ehrenberg, 1831
synonyms =
*"Sepia lefebrei"
Orbigny, 1845

"Sepia gibba" is a species of cuttlefish native to the Red Sea. The depth range of "S. gibba" is unknown, although it is at least as shallow as 1 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. gibba" grows to a mantle length of 100 mm.

The type specimen was collected in the Red Sea and is deposited at the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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