Sepia joubini

Taxobox
name = "Sepia joubini"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. joubini"
binomial = "Sepia joubini"
binomial_authority = Massy, 1927
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"Sepia joubini" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, specifically South Africa, off Tugela River Mouth (coord|29|11|S|31|25|E|scale:250000), to Cape Natal, off southern Mozambique (24ºS to 25ºS), and in the Saya-de-Malha Bank. It lives at a depth of between 66 and 170 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 "S. joubini" grow to a mantle length of 64 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Durban, South Africa. It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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