Sepia robsoni
Species of cuttlefish
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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]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiidae |
| Genus: | Sepia |
| Subgenus: | Hemisepius |
| Species: | S. robsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Sepia robsoni | |
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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]
