Comprehensive Description
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Sepiella weberi Adam, 1939
Sepiella melwardi Iredale, 1954:78. [Holotype, AM C133320, sepion only, 48 mm SL, Condon Bay, Melville Island, NT (11°35′S, 131°10′E).]
DIAGNOSIS.—Mantle elongate; anterior dorsal margin pointed, projecting to midlevel of eye. Gland located at posterior end of mantle between fins. Tentacular club (Figure 28a) with 10–12 series of minute, subequal suckers. Left arm IV of male hectocotylized.
Sepion (Figure 28b,c) narrow, tongue-like, width about 30% of length; posterior end broad, thin, chitinous, without spine.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Adam, 1939:98, pl. 4: figs. 1, 2.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Timor (8°35′S, 126°00′E) and Soemba, eastern Indonesia.
TYPES.—Syntypes: ZMA, 1 female, Soemba, 67 mm ML; ZMA, 1 male, Timor, 60 mm ML. Not examined.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—East Indonesia (Soemba, Timor). NMV collection, Timor Sea (∼12°S, 127°E), northern Australia, near Darwin, NT (12°27′S, 130°50′E), at depths of 1–88 m.
- 書目引用
- 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
Comprehensive Description
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Sepiella weberi Adam, 1939
Sepiella metwardi Iredale, 1954:78.
DIAGNOSIS.—Mantle elongate, broadly rounded posteriorly. Anterior mantle margin pointed. Fins starting 5–6 mm behind mantle margin and narrowing anteriorly, broader posteriorly but not as broad as in Sepiella inermis. Fin with row of 5 to 6 spots dorsally along base. Left arm IV of male hectocotylized. Tentacular club with minute, subequal suckers in 10–12 longitudinal rows. Sexual dimorphism in arm sucker denticulation and sepion shape. Sepion bluntly pointed anteriorly, lateral rims of posterior almost parallel, width about 30% of length. Outer cone broadly rounded.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Adam, 1939c:98, figs. 6–8, pl. 4: figs. 1, 2.
TYPE LOCALITIES.—Indonesia, Timor (8°35′S, 126°00′E) and Sumba (10°00′S, 119°56′E) islands, depth 18 m.
TYPES.—Syntypes: Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam: 1 male, 60 mm ML, Timor; 1 female, 67 mm ML, Sumba.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Sumba and Timor islands and Timor Sea (around 12°S, 127°E), eastern Indonesia; northern Australia near Darwin (12°27′S, 130°50′E). Depth 1–88 m.
- 書目引用
- 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
Depth range
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shallow waters to 88 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.