Sepia rhoda

Taxobox
name = "Sepia rhoda"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. rhoda"
binomial = "Sepia rhoda"
binomial_authority = (Iredale, 1954)
synonyms =
*"Arctosepia rhoda"
Iredale, 1954

"Sepia rhoda" is a species of cuttlefish native to the Indo-Pacific, specifically from the Arafura Sea (coord|10|24|S|130|23|E|scale:250000) to the North West Shelf (coord|20|47|S|114|48|E|scale:250000), both off Australia. It lives at depths of between 64 and 184 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 grow to 58 mm in mantle length (ML). Males are slightly larger, reaching 61 mm ML.

The type specimen was collected off Point Cloates in Western Australia (coord|22|43|S|113|40|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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