| Sepia smithi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Sepiida |
| Family: | Sepiidae |
| Genus: | Sepia |
| Subgenus: | Acanthosepion |
| Species: | S. smithi |
| Binomial name | |
| Sepia smithi (Hoyle, 1885) | |
Sepia smithi, also known as Smith's cuttlefish, is a widely distributed species of cuttlefish in the family Sepiidae. [1] [2] The species has been observed off the coast of Northern Australia. [3] [4]
The species is usually a varying shade of brown in color, and can have white "dots" on their exterior. The species has 3 pairs of arms, and both sexes have eye-spots. [5] Sepia smithi was first described by William Evans Hoyle in 1885. [4]
A 2023 phylogenetic analysis found Sepia smithi to be sister to Sepia elliptica . Both were found to belong to a larger clade of Indo-Pacific species, assigned by the authors to the reinstated genus Acanthosepion , previously synonymized with Sepia. [6]
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