Sepia senta

Taxobox
name = "Sepia senta"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = undetermined
species = "S. senta"
binomial = "Sepia senta"
binomial_authority = Lu & Reid, 1997
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"Sepia senta" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean, specifically the North West Shelf in Western Australia (coord|12|04|S|122|51|E|scale:250000 to coord|18|44|S|116|59|E|scale:250000). It is possibly also present in Indonesia. Reid "et al." (2005) note that "a very similar, probably closely related animal has been found in the Philippines". "S. senta" lives at depths of 256 to 426 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 are on average larger than males. They grow to 83 mm and 62 mm in mantle length, respectively.

The type specimen was collected off Western Australia (coord|14|07|S|122|06|E|scale:250000) and is deposited at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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