Sepiella cyanea
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| Sepiella cyanea | |
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| Sepiella cyanea cuttlebone at Zoölogisch Museum Amsterdam | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiidae |
| Genus: | Sepiella |
| Species: | S. cyanea |
| Binomial name | |
| Sepiella cyanea Robson, 1924 | |
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]
