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Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 
AphiaID: 220305

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Sepiida (Order) > Sepiidae (Family) > Sepia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Added by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Sepia Linnaeus, 1758
Source  basis of record: Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English broadclub cuttlefish  [details]
French seiche grandes mains  [details]
Indonesian sotong-besar  [details]
Japanese kobushime  [details]
Japanese kubushime  [details]
Spanish sepia mazuda  [details]
Distribution type locality: New Guinea [details]
Comores [details]
Eritrea [details]
FAO fishing area 51 [details]
FAO fishing area 57 [details]
FAO fishing area 61 [details]
FAO fishing area 71 [details]
Kenya [details]
Madagascar (not certain[details]
Mozambique [details]
Somalia [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links To GenBank
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Notes  Description: Tentacular clubs half-moon-shaped, their protective membranes fused at base, completely surrounding sucker-bearing surface; a deep cleft or groove between swimming keel and dorsal protective membrane nearly separates sucker-bearing area from stalk [details]

Distribution: Central Indo-Pacific to Japan [details]

Habitat: coastal [details]
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1997-06-07 07:51:36 GMT  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2009). Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220305 on 2010-02-09
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