- Sepia mira
Taxobox
name = "Sepia mira"
image_caption =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
ordo =Sepiida
familia =Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = undetermined
species = "S. mira"
binomial = "Sepia mira"
binomial_authority = (Cotton , 1932)
synonyms =
*"Tenuisepia mira"
Cotton, 1932"Sepia mira" is a species of
cuttlefish native to the southwesternPacific Ocean , specifically from the mouth of Clarence River,New South Wales (coord|29|19|S|153|29|E|scale:250000) to offWooli (coord|29|49|S|153|27|E|scale:250000) inAustralia . It lives at depths of between 20 and 72 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. mira" grows to a mantle length of 55 mm.
The
type specimen was collected in Capricorn Group,North-West Islet ,Queensland (coord|23|18|S|151|42|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at theSouth Australian Museum inAdelaide . [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]References
External links
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
