Sepia sokotriensis

Taxobox
name = "Sepia sokotriensis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. sokotriensis"
binomial = "Sepia sokotriensis"
binomial_authority = Khromov, 1988
synonyms =

"Sepia sokotriensis" is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Indian Ocean, specifically off Sokotra Island, and probably east Africa. It lives at depths to 100 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. sokotriensis" grows to a mantle length of 80 mm.

The type specimen was collected near Sokotra Island in the Arabian Sea (coord|12|10|N|54|25|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Zoological Museum in Moscow. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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