Sepia pulchra

Taxobox
name = "Sepia pulchra"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Hemisepius"
species = "S. pulchra"
binomial = "Sepia pulchra"
binomial_authority = Roeleveld & Liltved, 1985
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"Sepia pulchra" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, specifically off the Cape Peninsula in South Africa. It lives at depths of between 15 and 50 m. [Roeleveld, M.A.C. & W.R. Liltved 1985. A new species of "Sepia" (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae) from South Africa. "Annals of the South African Museum" 96(1): 1-18.] 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. pulchra" grows to a mantle length of 22 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Llandudno, Cape Peninsula. It is deposited at the South African Museum in Cape Town. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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