Sepiella mangkangunga

Taxobox
name = "Sepiella mangkangunga"


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Cephalopoda
ordo = Sepiida
familia = Sepiidae
genus = "Sepiella"
species = "S. mangkangunga"
binomial = "Sepiella mangkangunga"
binomial_authority = Reid & Lu, 1998
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"Sepiella mangkangunga" is a species of cuttlefish native to the Indo-Pacific, specifically off the Northern Territory in Australia (coord|12|48|S|130|21|E|scale:250000 to coord|13|14|S|130|57|E|scale:250000). It lives at depths from 1.1 to 3.3 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.]

Females are on average slightly larger than males. They grow to 59 and 58 mm in mantle length, respectively.

The type specimen was collected off Stingray Head in the Northern Territory (coord|12|48|S|130|21|E|scale:250000). It is deposited at the Museum and Art Gallery in Darwin. [ [http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda] ]

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