Sepia ivanovi | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiidae |
Genus: | Sepia |
Subgenus: | Doratosepion |
Species: | S. ivanovi
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Binomial name | |
Sepia ivanovi Khromov, 1982
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Sepia ivanovi is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, probably throughout southeast Africa, including Kenya, Mozambique, to the mouth of the Zambezi River. It lives at depths to 50 m. [3]
Sepia ivanovi grows to a mantle length of 70 mm. [3]
The type specimen was collected near Mombasa, Kenya ( 04°03′S 40°00′E / 4.050°S 40.000°E). It is deposited at the Zoological Museum in Moscow. [4]