Sepiadarium nipponianum

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Sepiadarium nipponianum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiadariidae
Genus: Sepiadarium
Species: S. nipponianum
Binomial name
Sepiadarium nipponianum
Berry, 1932

Sepiadarium nipponianum is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Pacific Ocean; it occurs off the Japanese islands of Shikoku, Kyūshū, and southern Honshū.[1]

The type specimen was collected off Japan and is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C..[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Reid, A. 2005. Family Sepiadariidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 204–207.
  2. ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda

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