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Species of cuttlefish From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sepia smithi, also known as Smith's cuttlefish, is a widely distributed species of cuttlefish in the family Sepiidae.[1][2] The species has been observed off the coast of Northern Australia.[3][4]
Sepia smithi | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiidae |
Genus: | Sepia |
Subgenus: | Acanthosepion |
Species: | S. smithi |
Binomial name | |
Sepia smithi (Hoyle, 1885) | |
The species is usually a varying shade of brown in color, and can have white "dots" on their exterior. The species has 3 pairs of arms, and both sexes have eye-spots.[5] Sepia smithi was first described by William Evans Hoyle in 1885.[4]
A 2023 phylogenetic analysis found Sepia smithi to be sister to Sepia elliptica. Both were found to belong to a larger clade of Indo-Pacific species, assigned by the authors to the reinstated genus Acanthosepion, previously synonymized with Sepia.[6]
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