Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Sepia tokioensis Ortmann, 1888
Sepia misakiensis Wülker, 1910:15.
DIAGNOSIS.—Fins of male thickened posteriorly and expanded into distinct lobes. Arms I of male longer than other arms; left arm IV only slightly modified in male, with distal suckers smaller than proximal suckers. Arm suckers quadriserial. Tentacular club small, crescent-shaped, with unequal suckers in 8 longitudinal rows, 4 or 5 median suckers enlarged. Sepion with spine.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Ortmann, 1888:653, pl. 23: fig. 3.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Japan, Tokyo Bay.
TYPES.—Syntypes: Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Strasbourg, France.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Known only from Japan.
- bibliographic citation
- Voss, N. A. and Sweeney, M. J. 1998. "Systematics and Biogeography of cephalopods. Volume I." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-276. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.586
