Species Sepia cottoni Adam, 1979

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepia cottoni Adam, W. 1979. The Sepiidae (Cephalopoda, Decapoda) in the collections of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 113-212 pls 1-13 [196].

  Type data:

   Holotype WAM 435-65 ♂, (W of Lancelin), WA [31°54'S 114°55'E].
  Paratype(s) WAM 494-76 5♀, SW of Pt Cloates, 134 m [23°39'S 113°11'E]; WAM 483-76 1 specimen, Dirk Hartog Is. [25°54'S 112°38'E]; WAM 424-65 ♂ 2♀, NW of Bluff Pt, 130 m [27°40'S 113°20'E]; WAM 432-65 ♀, SW of Bluff Pt, 110 m [28°14'S 113°28'E]; WAM 484-76 ♀, Rottnest Is., Armstrong Pt [32°S 115°30'E].

 

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Western Australia from 19º04΄24΄΄S, 118º47΄30΄΄E to 33º45΄12΄΄S, 114º28΄36΄΄E (based on whole animal specimen records). Depth range 83–183 m.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Unknown.

 

General References

Adam, W. 1979. The Sepiidae (Cephalopoda, Decapoda) in the collections of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 113-212 pls 1-13 [193] (distribution)

Lu, C.C. & Phillips, J.U. 1985. An annotated checklist of Cephalopoda from Australian waters. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 2: 21-36 [24] (Australian distribution)

Reid, A.L. 2000. Australian cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda : Sepiidae): the 'doratosepion' species complex. Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 1-76 [21] (re-description, new records)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Nov-2013	SEPIIDA	01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Julian Finn (NMV)
		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED