Sepia tanybracheia

Taxobox
name = "Sepia tanybracheia"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. tanybracheia"
binomial = "Sepia tanybracheia"
binomial_authority = Reid, 2000
synonyms =

"Sepia tanybracheia" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean. It is known only from the type locality. "S. tanybracheia" lives at depths of 200 to 205 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.]

Males grow to a mantle length of 51 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Western Australia (coord|12|36|S|123|45|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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