Sepia vercoi

Taxobox
name = "Sepia vercoi"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepia"
subgenus = "Doratosepion"
species = "S. vercoi"
binomial = "Sepia vercoi"
binomial_authority = Adam, 1979
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"Sepia vercoi" is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean, specifically the waters off Western Australia (coord|18|31|S|118|09|E|scale:250000 to coord|25|31|S|112|29|E|scale:250000). It lives at depths of 76 to 201 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.]

Both sexes of "S. vercoi" grow to 46 mm in mantle length.

The type specimen was collected west of Shark Bay, Western Australia (coord|25|31|S|112|29|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Western Australian Museum in Perth. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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