Sepiidae

Short description: Family of cuttlefishes

Sepiidae

Temporal range:  Miocene – Recent[1][2]

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Sepia sp.
Metasepia pfefferi
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Mollusca
Class:  | Cephalopoda
Order:  | Sepiida
Suborder:  | Sepiina
Family:  | Sepiidae
Leach, 1817
Genera and subgenera

* Metasepia
* Sepia
* Acanthosepion
* Anomalosepia
* Doratosepion
* Hemisepius
* Rhombosepion
* Sepia
* Sepiella

Sepiidae is a family of cephalopods in the order Sepiida.

## Classification

* Order Sepiida: cuttlefish
* Family Sepiadariidae
* Family Sepiidae
* Genus Metasepia
* Metasepia pfefferi, flamboyant cuttlefish
* Metasepia tullbergi, paintpot cuttlefish
* Genus Sepia
* Subgenus undetermined
* ? Sepia bartletti
* ? Sepia baxteri *
* ? Sepia dannevigi *
* ? Sepia elliptica, ovalbone cuttlefish
* Sepia filibrachia
* Sepia mira
* Sepia plana
* Sepia senta
* Sepia subplana
* ? Sepia whitleyana
* Subgenus Acanthosepion
* Sepia aculeata, needle cuttlefish
* Sepia brevimana, shortclub cuttlefish
* Sepia esculenta, golden cuttlefish
* Sepia lycidas, kisslip cuttlefish
* Sepia prashadi, hooded cuttlefish
* Sepia recurvirostra, curvespine cuttlefish
* Sepia savignyi, broadback cuttlefish
* Sepia smithi, Smith's cuttlefish
* Sepia stellifera
* Sepia thurstoni
* Sepia vecchioni[3]
* Sepia zanzibarica
* Subgenus Anomalosepia
* Sepia australis, southern cuttlefish
* Sepia omani, Oman cuttlefish
* Sepia sulcata, grooved cuttlefish
* Subgenus Doratosepion
* Sepia adami
* Sepia andreana, Andrea cuttlefish
* Sepia appellofi
* Sepia arabica, Arabian cuttlefish
* Sepia aureomaculata
* Sepia bathyalis
* Sepia bidhaia
* Sepia braggi, slender cuttlefish
* Sepia burnupi
* Sepia carinata
* Sepia confusa
* Sepia cottoni
* Sepia elongata
* Sepia erostrata
* Sepia foliopeza
* Sepia incerta
* Sepia ivanovi
* Sepia joubini
* Sepia kiensis *
* Sepia kobiensis, Kobi cuttlefish
* Sepia koilados
* Sepia limata
* Sepia longipes, longarm cuttlefish
* Sepia lorigera, spider cuttlefish
* Sepia mascarensis
* Sepia mirabilis
* Sepia murrayi, frog cuttlefish
* Sepia pardex
* Sepia peterseni
* Sepia rhoda
* Sepia saya
* Sepia sewelli
* Sepia sokotriensis
* Sepia subtenuipes
* Sepia tala
* Sepia tanybracheia
* Sepia tenuipes
* Sepia tokioensis
* Sepia trygonina, trident cuttlefish
* Sepia vercoi
* Sepia vietnamica
* Subgenus Hemisepius
* Sepia dubia
* Sepia faurei
* Sepia pulchra
* Sepia robsoni
* Sepia typica
* Subgenus Rhombosepion
* Sepia acuminata
* Sepia cultrata, knifebone cuttlefish
* Sepia elegans, elegant cuttlefish
* Sepia hedleyi, Hedley's cuttlefish
* Sepia hieronis
* Sepia madokai, Madokai's cuttlefish
* ? Sepia opipara
* Sepia orbignyana, pink cuttlefish
* Sepia reesi
* Sepia rex
* Sepia vossi
* Subgenus Sepia
* Sepia angulata *
* Sepia apama, giant Australian cuttlefish
* Sepia bandensis, stumpy-spined cuttlefish
* Sepia bertheloti, African cuttlefish
* Sepia chirotrema
* Sepia dollfusi
* Sepia elobyana, Guinean cuttlefish
* Sepia gibba
* Sepia hierredda
* Sepia insignis
* Sepia irvingi
* Sepia latimanus, broadclub cuttlefish
* Sepia mestus, reaper cuttlefish
* Sepia novaehollandiae, New Holland cuttlefish
* Sepia officinalis, common cuttlefish
* Sepia papillata
* Sepia papuensis, Papuan cuttlefish
* Sepia pharaonis, Pharaoh cuttlefish
* Sepia plangon, mourning cuttlefish
* Sepia plathyconchalis
* Sepia ramani
* Sepia rozella, rosecone cuttlefish
* Sepia simoniana
* Sepia tuberculata
* Sepia vermiculata
* Genus Sepiella
* Sepiella cyanea
* Sepiella inermis, spineless cuttlefish
* Sepiella japonica, Japanese spineless cuttlefish
* Sepiella mangkangunga
* Sepiella ocellata
* Sepiella ornata, ornate cuttlefish
* Sepiella weberi

The species listed above with an asterisk (*) are questionable and need further study to determine if they are a valid species or a synonym. The question mark (?) indicates questionable placement within the genus.

## References

1. ↑ Whiteaves, J.F. 1897. On some remains of a Sepia-like cuttle-fish from the Cretaceous rocks of the South Saskatchewan. The Canadian Record of Science 7: 459–462.
2. ↑ Hewitt, R.; Pedley, H. M. (1978). "The preservation of the shells of Sepia in the middle Miocene of Malta". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 89 (3): 227–237. doi:10.1016/S0016-7878(78)80013-3. Bibcode: 1978PrGA...89..227H.
3. ↑ Neethiselvan, N. & V.K. Venkataramani 2010. "A New Species of Cuttlefish, Sepia vecchioni (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae) from Colachal Coast, South India.". http://www.americanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0604. [yes|permanent dead link|dead link}}] Journal of American Science 6(4): 12–21.

## External links

* TONMO.com Sepiidae forum

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