Sepiella cyanea | |
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Sepiella cyanea cuttlebone at Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiidae |
Genus: | Sepiella |
Species: | S. cyanea
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Binomial name | |
Sepiella cyanea
Robson, 1924
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Sepiella cyanea is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, from Port Elizabeth and Durban north to central Mozambique (26ºN) and Madagascar. It lives at depths of 13 to 73 m. [1]
Sepiella cyanea grows to 80 mm in mantle length. [1]
The type specimen was collected off Natal, South Africa and is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London. [2]