Sepia sewelli

Taxobox
name = "Sepia sewelli"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. sewelli"
binomial = "Sepia sewelli"
binomial_authority = Adam & Rees, 1966
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"Sepia sewelli" is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Indian Ocean, from Cape Guardafui, Somalia (coord|11|57|N|50|35|E|scale:250000 to coord|05|40|S|39|17|E|scale:250000) to Zanzibar and probably Madagascar. It lives at depths of 37 to 238 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. sewelli" grows to a mantle length of 30 mm.

The type specimen was collected near Cape Guardafui (coord|11|57|12|N|50|35|00|E|scale:250000 to coord|11|56|42|N|50|39|12|E|scale:250000) and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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