Sepia tuberculata

Taxobox
name = "Sepia tuberculata"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Sepia"
species = "S. tuberculata"
binomial = "Sepia tuberculata"
binomial_authority = Lamarck, 1798
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"Sepia tuberculata" is a species of cuttlefish native to South African waters from Melbosstrand (coord|33|43|S|18|26|E|scale:250000) to Knysna (coord|34|03|S|23|03|E|scale:250000). It lives in very shallow water to a depth of 3 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. tuberculata" grows to a mantle length of 82 mm.

The type specimen was collected off the coast of South Africa and is deposited at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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