Comprehensive Description
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Sepia savignyi Blainville, 1827
DIAGNOSIS.—Mantle broadly oval, slightly acuminate posteriorly. Dorsal mantle margin projecting bluntly. Tentacular club narrow, with subequal suckers in 8 oblique rows. Sepion broadly oval, with very short spine. Anterior striae L-shaped.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Blainville, 1827:285.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Red Sea.
TYPES.—Neotype: Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris: 1.6.188, male, sepion, 95 mm; 1.6.188bis, soft parts. Neotype designation, Rochebrune (1884).
Paratypes: None.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Red Sea; Gulf of Aden; Arabian Sea.
- 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
Depth range
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20 to 50 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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Habitat
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shelf
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
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