Sepia joubini
Species of cuttlefish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.[3]
| Sepia joubini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiidae |
| Genus: | Sepia |
| Subgenus: | Doratosepion |
| Species: | S. joubini |
| Binomial name | |
| Sepia joubini | |
Females of S. joubini grow to a mantle length of 64 mm.[3]
The type specimen was collected off Durban, South Africa. It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.[4] 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.[5]
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