Sepiella ornata

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Sepiella ornata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiidae
Genus: Sepiella
Species:
S. ornata
Binomial name
Sepiella ornata
(Rang, 1837)
Synonyms [2]
  • Sepia ornata Rang, 1837

Sepiella ornata, or the ornate cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish [3] first described by Sander Rang in 1837 based on a specimen caught in the Gulf of Guinea. [4]

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Description

Sepiella ornata has a mantle length of up to 100 millimeters, [4] and a total body length of up to 100 centimeters. [5] It has 10 to 14 suckers on each club (10 to 12 on males and 12 to 14 on females), [3] and a series of spots along dorsal fins, described as either reddish [4] or wine-colored. [3]

Distribution and habitat

Sepiella ornata is found in the east Atlantic ocean along the west coast of Africa, from Cape Blanco in Mauritania to Cape Frio in Namibia, [4] including in Ghana,[ citation needed ] Namibia (though rarely), [6] [7] Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. [8] It is demersal, [9] with a depth range of 20 to 150 meters, though usually found below 30 meters, [3] and it is most abundant below 50 meters. [4] The species is found between 13 and 16 kilometers offshore. [3] According to Guerra, Gonzalez, Roeleveld, and Jereb it is mostly found on muddy or sandy mud bottoms. [3]

Reproduction

Sepiella ornata has large eggs. [10]

Interest to fisheries

According to Rocha and Cheikh, Sepiella ornata is of potential interest to fisheries. [9] As of 2014, it was mostly caught as bycatch in bottom trawls. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Barratt, I.; Allcock, L. (2012). "Sepiella ornata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2012 e.T162567A918228. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162567A918228.en . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  2. ↑ "Sepiella ornata". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Guerra, A.; Gonzalez, A.F.; Roeleveld, M.; Jereb, P. (2014). "Cephalopods". In Carpenter, Kent E.; De Angelis, Nicoletta (eds.). The Living Marine Resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. Vol. 1. Introduction, crustaceans, chitons and cephalopods. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   978-92-5-107847-1.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Reid, A.; P., Jereb; Roper, C.F.E. (2005). "Family Sepiidae". In Jereb, P.; Roper, C.F.E. (eds.). Cephalopods of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Species Known to Date (PDF). Vol. 1. Chambered Nautiluses and Sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. pp. 134–5. ISBN   92-5-105383-9.
  5. ↑ Pissarra, Vasco Miguel de Castro e Vasconcelos (2017). Global diversity of coastal cephalopods: hotspots and latitudinal gradients (PhD thesis). University of Lisbon. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
  6. ↑ Bianchi, G.; Carpenter, K.E.; Roux, J.P.; Molloy, F.J.; Boyer, D.; Boyer, H.J. (1999). Field Guide to the Living Marine Resources of Namibia. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN   978-92-5-104345-5.
  7. ↑ Roeleveld, M. A. C. (December 1998). "The status and importance of cephalopod systematics in southern Africa". South African Journal of Marine Science. 20 (1): 1–16. doi:10.2989/025776198784126296. ISSN   0257-7615.
  8. ↑ Luna, Amanda; Rocha, Francisco; Perales-Raya, Catalina (2021-01-25). "A review of cephalopods (Phylum: Mollusca) of the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (Central-East Atlantic, African coast)". Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 101 (1): 1–25. doi:10.1017/s0025315420001356. hdl: 11093/1951 . ISSN   0025-3154.
  9. 1 2 Rocha, Francisco; Cheikh, Inejih (2015). "Cephalopods in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem". In Valdes, Luis; Deniz-Gonzalez, Itahisa (eds.). Oceanographic and Biological Features in the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem (PDF). IOC Technical Series No. 115. Paris: UNESCO. p. 246.
  10. ↑ Laptikhovsky, Vladimir V.; Rogov, Mikhail A.; Nikolaeva, Svetlana V.; Arkhipkin, Alexander I. (2012-12-06). "Environmental impact on ectocochleate cephalopod reproductive strategies and the evolutionary significance of cephalopod egg size". Bulletin of Geosciences: 83–94. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1351. ISSN   1802-8225.
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