''Sepia chirotrema'' is a species of
cuttlefish
Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of ...
native to the southern
Indo-Pacific
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, specifically from
Investigator Strait, southern
Australia
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() to
Dirk Hartog Island, western Australia (). It lives at a depth of between 120 and 210 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.]
''Sepia chirotrema'' grows to a
mantle
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Mantle may refer to:
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length of approximately 200 mm.
The
type specimen was collected in the Investigator Strait area (), south of
Kangaroo Island (). It was deposited at the
Australian Museum in
Sydney
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but no longer exists.
Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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References
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Cuttlefish
Fauna of Western Australia
Molluscs described in 1918
Taxa named by Samuel Stillman Berry
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