Sepia thurstoni

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name = "Sepia thurstoni"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Acanthosepion"
species = "S. thurstoni"
binomial = "Sepia thurstoni"
binomial_authority = Adam & Rees, 1966
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"Sepia thurstoni" is a species of cuttlefish native to the Indian Ocean, specifically the waters off Chennai in India and off Negombo and Hambantota in Sri Lanka. It lives at depths of 20 to 40 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. thurstoni" grows to a mantle length of 110 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Ramesvaram Island in the Bay of Bengal (coord|09|18|N|79|19|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] ] It is named after Edgar Thurston.

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