Sepia limata

Taxobox
name = "Sepia limata"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. limata"
binomial = "Sepia limata"
binomial_authority = (Iredale, 1926)
synonyms =
*"Arctosepia limata"
Iredale, 1926

"Sepia limata" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Pacific Ocean, specifically southern Queensland to New South Wales, Australia (coord|26|30|S|153|44|E|scale:250000 to coord|34|40|S|150|51|E|scale:250000). It lives at depths of between 17 and 183 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 are slightly larger than males. They grow to a mantle length of 42 mm and 35 mm, respectively.

The type specimen was collected off Manly Beach, New South Wales (coord|33|48|S|151|17|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Australian Museum in Sydney. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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