- Sepia pardex
Taxobox
name = "Sepia pardex"
image_caption =
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Mollusca
classis =Cephalopod a
ordo =Sepiida
familia =Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion "
species = "S. pardex"
binomial = "Sepia pardex"
binomial_authority =Sasaki , 1913
synonyms =
*"Sepia pardalis"
Sasaki, 1914"Sepia pardex" is a species of
cuttlefish native to the westernPacific Ocean , specifically offJapan , along the Pacific coast from theChiba Peninsula , and along theJapan Sea coast fromToyama Bay toSouth Korea . It is also present offTaiwan and in theEast China Sea . The depth range of this species is unknown.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. pardex" grows to a mantle length of 230 mm.
The
type specimen was collected offKajiyama ,Chiba Prefecture ,Japan . It is deposited at the University Museum of theUniversity of Tokyo . [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]References
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