Sepia robsoni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiidae |
Genus: | Sepia |
Subgenus: | Hemisepius |
Species: | S. robsoni
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Binomial name | |
Sepia robsoni | |
Synonyms [2] | |
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Sepia robsoni is a species of cuttlefish known only from its type locality, Hout Bay in South Africa. It lives at depths of between 17 and 37 m. [3]
Sepia robsoni grows to a mantle length of 20 mm. [3]
The type specimen was collected in Hout Bay, South Africa and is deposited at the Natural History Museum in London. [4] The specific name honours the painter and curator of Zoology at the British Museum, Natural History, Guy Coburn Robson (1888-1945), and the species was named by the Irish naturalist Annie Massy (1868-1931). [5]