Sepia joubini: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Cephalopoda
Order
Sepiida
Family
Sepiidae
Genus
Sepia
Species
Sepia joubini
Scientific Name
Sepia joubini

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Sepia joubini

Sepia joubini is a species of cuttlefish native to the southwestern Indian Ocean, specifically South Africa, off Tugela River Mouth (29°11′S 31°25′E), to Cape Natal, off southern Mozambique (24ºS to 25ºS), and in the Saya-de-Malha Bank. It lives at a depth of between 66 and 170 m.

Females of S. joubini grow to a mantle length of 64 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Durban, South Africa. It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London. The specific name honours Prof. Dr. Louis Marie Adolphe Olivier Édouard Joubin (1861-1935), a professor at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris and the species was named by the Irish zoologist Annie Massy.

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