Sepia tokioensis

Taxobox
name = "Sepia tokioensis"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. tokioensis"
binomial = "Sepia tokioensis"
binomial_authority = Ortmann, 1888
synonyms =
*"Sepia misakiensis"
Wülker, 1910

"Sepia tokioensis" is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Pacific Ocean, specifically Japanese waters from Tsugaru Strait to Kyūshū and the Ohsumi Islands, including Sagami Bay, Suruga Bay, the western Japan Sea, and Shimane Prefecture. It lives on the continental shelf.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. tokioensis" grows to a mantle length of 90 mm.

The type specimen was collected in Tokyo Bay and is deposited at the Musee Zoologique in Strasbourg. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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