|
| Query: Pharaoh cuttlefish | Result: 1st of 5 | |
pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis)
| Subject: | pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis)
| | Poster: | Wiki Photos (---@---.---)
| |
| Resolution: 1052x789
File Size: 196456 Bytes
Upload Date: 2017:06:14 22:50:26
|
A pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) in Egypt
Date 15 September 2007, 20:02
Source Pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) spreading out it's 2 "extra" tentacles
Author Silke Baron http://www.flickr.com/people/37707866@N00 from Vienna, Austria
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sepia_pharaonis.jpg
The pharaoh cuttlefish (Sepia pharaonis) is a large cuttlefish species, growing to 42 cm in mantle length and 5 kg in weight. Sepia pharaonis is likely a complex of at least three species, Sepia pharaonis I, commonly located in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, Sepia pharaonis II, located from Japan to the Gulf of Thailand and northern Australia; and Sepia pharaonis III, located from the Indian Ocean to the Andaman Sea.
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiidae
Genus: Sepia
Subgenus: Sepia
Species: Sepia pharaonis Ehrenberg, 1831
Synonyms:
Sepia rouxi Orbigny, 1841
Sepia formosana Berry, 1912
Sepia formosana Sasaki, 1929
Sepia tigris Sasaki, 1929
Sepia torosa Ortmann, 1888
Crumenasepia hulliana Iredale, 1926
Crumenasepia ursulae Cotton, 1929 |
^o^
Animal Pictures Archive for smart phones
^o^
|
|
