Species under Sepia

Species under Sepia

n= 105

Species name	Common name	Distribution	Max. Length (cm)
Sepia aculeata Van Hasselt, 1835	Needle cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	23
Sepia acuminata Smith, 1916		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	10
Sepia adami Roeleveld, 1972		Southeast Atlantic
Sepia andreana Steenstrup, 1875	Andrea cuttlefish	Western Pacific	12
Sepia angulata Roeleveld, 1972		Southeast Atlantic
Sepia apama Gray, 1849	Australian giant cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	50
Sepia appellofi Wülker, 1910		Northwest Pacific	9
Sepia aureomaculata Okutani & Horikawa, 1987		Northwest Pacific	16
Sepia australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1832	Southern cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic to Western Indian Ocean	6.2
Sepia bandensis Adam, 1939	Stumpy cuttlefish	Indo-Pacific	7
Sepia bartletti (Iredale, 1954)	Bartlett's cuttlefish	Western Central Pacific	7.4
Sepia bathyalis Khromov, Nikitina & Nesis, 1991		Western Indian Ocean	8
Sepia baxteri (Iredale, 1940)		Southwest Pacific	7.4
Sepia bertheloti D'Orbigny, 1835	African cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic	18
Sepia bidhaia Reid, 2000		Western Central Pacific	3.7
Sepia braggi Verco, 1907	Slender cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	4.9
Sepia brevimana Steenstrup, 1875	Shortclub cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	11
Sepia burnupi Hoyle, 1904		Southeast Atlantic	9
Sepia carinata Sasaki, 1920		Northwest Pacific	6
Sepia chirotrema Berry, 1918		Eastern Indian Ocean	20
Sepia confusa Smith, 1916		Southeast Atlantic	15
Sepia cottoni Adam, 1979	Cotton's cuttlefish	Eastern Indian Ocean	5.5
Sepia cultrata Hoyle, 1885	Knifebone cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	12
Sepia dannevigi Berry, 1918		Indo-West Pacific
Sepia dollfusi Adam, 1941		Western Indian Ocean	11
Sepia dubia Adam & Rees, 1966		Southeast Atlantic	1.7
Sepia elegans Blainville, 1827	Elegant cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean	7.2
Sepia elliptica Hoyle, 1885	Ovalbone cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	17.5
Sepia elobyana Adam, 1941	Guinean cuttlefish	Eastern Central Atlantic	6
Sepia elongata D'Orbigny, 1839-1842		Western Indian Ocean	9.7
Sepia erostrata Sasaki, 1929		Northwest Pacific	9
Sepia esculenta Hoyle, 1885	Golden cuttlefish	Western Pacific	18
Sepia faurei Roeleveld, 1972		Southeast Atlantic	2.1
Sepia filibrachia Reid & Lu, 2005		Western Pacific	6.2
Sepia foliopeza Okutani & Tagawa, 1987		Northwest Pacific	11
Sepia furcata Ho & Lu, 2005		Northwest Pacific
Sepia gibba Ehrenberg, 1831		Western Indian Ocean	10
Sepia grahami Reid, 2001	Ken's cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	6.6
Sepia hedleyi Berry, 1918		Indo-West Pacific	8.3
Sepia hieronis (Robson, 1924)	Bullet cuttlefish	Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	8
Sepia hierredda Rang, 1835	Giant african cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic	50
Sepia hirunda Ho & Lu, 2005		Northwest Pacific
Sepia incerta Smith, 1916		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	15
Sepia insignis Smith, 1916		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	6
Sepia irvingi Meyer, 1909		Indo-West Pacific	10
Sepia ivanovi Khromov, 1982		Western Indian Ocean	7
Sepia joubini Massy, 1927		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	6.4
Sepia kiensis Hoyle, 1885		Indo-West Pacific	3.7
Sepia koilados Reid, 2000		Eastern Indian Ocean	6.8
Sepia limata (Iredale, 1926)		Western Pacific	3.5
Sepia longipes Sasaki, 1914	Longarm cuttlefish	Northwest Pacific	25
Sepia lorigera Wülker, 1910	Spider cuttlefish	Northwest Pacific	25
Sepia lycidas Gray, 1849	Kisslip cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	38
Sepia madokai Adam, 1939	Madokai's cuttlefish	Western Pacific	10
Sepia mascarensis Filippova & Khromov, 1991		Western Indian Ocean	12.4
Sepia mestus Gray, 1849	Reaper cuttlefish	Western Pacific	7.7
Sepia mira (Cotton, 1932)	Little cuttlefish	Southwest Pacific	5.5
Sepia mirabilis Khromov, 1988		Western Indian Ocean	7
Sepia murrayi Adam & Rees, 1966	Frog cuttlefish	Western Indian Ocean	4.1
Sepia novaehollandiae Hoyle, 1909		Eastern Indian Ocean and Southwest Pacific	7.7
Sepia officinalis Linnaeus, 1758	Common cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean	49
Sepia opipara (Iredale, 1926)	Magnificent cuttlefish	Eastern Indian Ocean and Western Pacific	15
Sepia orbignyana Férussac, 1826	Pink cuttlefish	Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean	9.6
Sepia papillata Quoy & Gaimard, 1832	Wrinkled cuttlefish	Southeast Atlantic and western Indian Ocean	14
Sepia papuensis Hoyle, 1885	Papuan cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	11
Sepia pardalis Sasaki, 1914		Northwest Pacific
Sepia pardex Sasaki, 1913		Northwest Pacific
Sepia peterseni Appellöf, 1886		Southwest Pacific	12
Sepia plana Lu & Reid, 1997		Eastern Indian Ocean	5.3
Sepia plangon Gray, 1849	Striking cuttlefish	Western Pacific	13.5
Sepia plathyconchalis Filippova & Khromov, 1991		Western Indian Ocean	6.3
Sepia prabahari Neethiselvan & Venkataramani, 2002	Small striped cuttlefish	Indian Ocean	13
Sepia pulchra Roeleveld & Liltved, 1985		Southeast Atlantic	2.2
Sepia ramani Neethiselvan, 2001		Indian Ocean	37.5
Sepia recurvirostra Steenstrup, 1875	Curvespine cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	17
Sepia reesi Adam, 1979		Eastern Indian Ocean	4.5
Sepia rex (Iredale, 1926)	King cuttlefish	Southwest Pacific
Sepia rhoda (Iredale, 1954)		Indo-West Pacific	6.1
Sepia robsoni (Massy, 1927)		Southeast Atlantic and Northwest Pacific	2
Sepia rozella (Iredale, 1926)	Rosecone cuttlefish	Western Pacific	14
Sepia savignyi Blainville, 1827	Broadback cuttlefish	Western Indian Ocean	19
Sepia saya Khromov, Nikitina & Nesis, 1991		Western Indian Ocean	9
Sepia senta Lu & Reid, 1997		Eastern Indian Ocean	6.2
Sepia sewelli Adam & Rees, 1966		Western Indian Ocean	3
Sepia simoniana Thiele, 1920		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	18.5
Sepia smithi Hoyle, 1885	Smith's cuttlefish	Indo-Pacific	14
Sepia sokotriensis Khromov, 1988		Western Indian Ocean	8
Sepia stellifera Homenko & Khromov, 1984	Starry cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	12
Sepia subplana Lu & Boucher-Rodoni, 2001		Central Pacific	6
Sepia subtenuipes Okutani & Horikawa, 1987		Northwest Pacific	9.4
Sepia sulcata Hoyle, 1885	Grooved cuttlefish	Indo-West Pacific	6.8
Sepia tala Khromov, Nikitina & Nesis, 1991		Western Indian Ocean	8
Sepia tanybracheia Reid, 2000		Eastern Indian Ocean	5.1
Sepia tenuipes Sasaki, 1929		Northwest Pacific	10.5
Sepia thurstoni Adam & Rees, 1966		Eastern Indian Ocean	11
Sepia tokioensis Ortmann, 1888		Northwest Pacific	9
Sepia tuberculata Lamarck, 1798	Tuberculate cuttlefish	Southeast Atlantic	8.2
Sepia typica (Steenstrup, 1875)		Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	2.6
Sepia vecchioni Neethiselvan & Venkataramani, 2010		Indian Ocean
Sepia vercoi Adam, 1979		Eastern Indian Ocean	4.6
Sepia vermiculata Quoy & Gaimard, 1832	Patchwork cuttlefish	Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	28.7
Sepia vietnamica Khromov, 1987	Viet nam cuttlefish	Western Pacific	7
Sepia vossi Khromov, 1996	Voss' cuttlefish	Western Pacific	10
Sepia whitleyana (Iredale, 1926)	Whitley's cuttlefish	Western Pacific	17.4
Sepia zanzibarica Pfeffer, 1884	Zanzibar cuttlefish	Southeast Atlantic and Western Indian Ocean	25

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