Comprehensive Description
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Sepia simoniana Thiele, 1920
Sepia natalensis Massy, 1925:212.
ILLUSTRATIONS.—Adam and Rees, 1966, pl. 29: figs. 179–182, pl. 42: fig. 254.
DIAGNOSIS.—Arm suckers quadriserial. Arm tips I–III attenuated. Tentacular club very long, with minute subequal suckers in about 24 longitudinal rows. Sepion oval in outline with short, thick knob. Striated zone with broad, deep groove. Anterior striae L-shaped. Inner cone flat, wide, limbs abruptly tapering anteriorly. Outer cone broad, not forming posterior wings.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Thiele, 1920:436.
TYPE LOCALITY.—South Africa, Simon's Bay.
TYPES.—Syntypes (5): Zoologisches Museum, Humboldt Universität Berlin.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Western Indian Ocean from Agulhas Bank to North Kenya.
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- 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
Sepia simoniana: Brief Summary
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Sepia simoniana is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Indian Ocean. Its natural distribution stretches from Cape Town to Agulhas Bank, north to northern Kenya and southern Mozambique. It is also present in the Saya-de-Malha Bank. S. simoniana usually lives at depths of less than 100 m, although it has been recorded down to 190 m.
Sepia simoniana grows to a mantle length of 185 mm.
The type specimen was collected off Simon's Bay, South Africa. It is deposited at the Zoologisches Museum in Berlin.
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Depth range
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Depth to 190 m (usually less than 100 m).
Jereb, P.; Roper, C.F.E. (Eds)(2005). An annotated an illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1: Chambered nautilusses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes 4(1). FAO, Rome. 262p., 9 colour plates.
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