Sepia mascarensis

Taxobox
name = "Sepia mascarensis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. mascarensis"
binomial = "Sepia mascarensis"
binomial_authority = Filippova & Khromov, 1991
synonyms =

"Sepia mascarensis" is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Indian Ocean, specifically Saya-de-Malha Bank (coord|11|31|S|61|00|E|scale:250000), Mascarene Ridge, and Cargados-Carajos Shoals. It lives at depths of between 87 and 325 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. mascarensis" grows to a mantle length of 67 to 124 mm.

The type specimen was collected in the Saya-de-Malha Bank, Indian Ocean. It is deposited at the Zoological Museum in Moscow. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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