Sepia koilados

Taxobox
name = "Sepia koilados"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. koilados"
binomial = "Sepia koilados"
binomial_authority = Reid, 2000
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"Sepia koilados" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean, specifically the North West Shelf in western Australia (coord|18|31|S|118|09|E|scale:250000 to coord|19|12.6|S|116|25.8|E|scale:250000). It lives at depths of between 182 and 203 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.]

Males are slightly larger than females. They grow to a mantle length of 68 mm and 58 mm, respectively.

The type specimen was collected in the North West Shelf (coord|18|36|S|118|02|E|scale:250000 to coord|18|39|S|118|04|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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