Sepia typica

Taxobox
name = "Sepia typica"


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Hemisepius"
species = "S. typica"
binomial = "Sepia typica"
binomial_authority = (Steenstrup, 1875)
synonyms =
*"Hemisepius typicus"
Steenstrup, 1875

"Sepia typica" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean and southeastern Atlantic Ocean. Its natural range stretches from Saldanha Bay, South Africa (coord|33|00|S|17|56|E|scale:250000) to southern Mozambique. It lives at depths of 2 to 290 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. typica" is a very small species, growing to only 26 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected in Table Bay, South Africa (coord|33|50|S|18|27|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Kobenhavns Universitet Zoologisk Museum in Copenhagen. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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