Sepiadarium
Encyclopedia
Sepiadarium is a genus
of cuttlefish
comprising five species.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
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....
comprising five species.
Species
- Genus Sepiadarium
- Sepiadarium auritumSepiadarium auritumSepiadarium auritum is a species of cuttlefish native to the eastern Indian Ocean off northwestern Australia.The type specimen measures 11 mm in mantle length....
- Sepiadarium austrinum, Southern Bottletail Squid
- Sepiadarium gracilisSepiadarium gracilisSepiadarium gracilis is a species of cuttlefish native to the Indo-Pacific; it occurs in the South China Sea and off the western Philippines....
- Sepiadarium kochiSepiadarium kochiSepiadarium kochi, common name Tropical Bottletail Squid or Koch’s bottletail squid, is an edible species of cuttlefish.-Distribution:...
, Tropical Bottletail Squid - Sepiadarium nipponianumSepiadarium nipponianumSepiadarium nipponianum is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Pacific Ocean; it occurs off the Japanese islands of Shikoku, Kyūshū, and southern Honshū....
- Sepiadarium auritum