Sepia esculenta | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Sepiida |
Family: | Sepiidae |
Genus: | Sepia |
Species: | S. esculenta
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Binomial name | |
Sepia esculenta (Hoyle, 1885)
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Synonyms | |
Sepia (Platysepia) esculenta Hoyle, 1885 |
Sepia esculenta, the golden cuttlefish, is a cuttlefish ranging from the Russian seas to the Philippines and throughout the western Pacific.[1] This species of cuttlefish is a nektobenthic organism living with a range of depths between 10m-150m(33 ft-492 ft)[2] but is primarily found within the shallow, coastal waters from japan to the Philippines at a depth between 10m-100m.[3] Members of this species are roughly 18 cm in length.