Sepia joubini is a species of cuttlefish

Cuttlefish

Cuttlefish are marine animals of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda . Despite their name, cuttlefish are not fish but molluscs....

 native to the southwestern Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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, specifically South Africa

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, off Tugela River Mouth (29°11′S 31°25′E), to Cape Natal, off southern Mozambique

Mozambique

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 (24ºS to 25ºS), and in the Saya-de-Malha Bank. It lives at a depth of between 66 and 170 m.

Females of S. joubini grow to a mantle

Mantle (mollusc)

The mantle is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.In many, but by no means all, species of molluscs, the epidermis of the mantle secretes...

 length of 64 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Durban

Durban

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, South Africa

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. It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London

London

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