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Species of cuttlefish

Sepiella ornata
Conservation status

Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Sepiida
Family: Sepiidae
Genus: Sepiella
Species: S. ornata
Binomial name
Sepiella ornata
(Rang, 1837)
Synonyms
  • Sepia ornata Rang, 1837

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

Description

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

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, including in Ghana, Namibia (though rarely), Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Guinea. It is demersal, with a depth range of 20 to 150 meters, though usually found below 30 meters, and it is most abundant below 50 meters. The species is found between 13 and 16 kilometers offshore. According to Djan, Finn, and Lazar, Sepiella ornata may prefer rocky over sandy sea beds, though Guerra, Gonzalez, Roeleveld, and Jereb write that it is mostly found on muddy or sandy mud bottoms.

Reproduction

Sepiella ornata has large eggs.

Interest to fisheries

According to Rocha and Cheikh, Sepiella ornata is of potential interest to fisheries, though Djan, Finn, and Lazar write that its small size means it is not economically valuable. As of 2014, it was mostly caught as bycatch in bottom trawls.

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. ^ 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. ^ 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. ^ Djan, Pearl Sakyi; Fynn, Joseph; Lazar, Najih (2021). "Habitat distribution, growth and mortality of giant African cuttlefish Sepia hierredda (Rang, 1835) in Ghana waters". Journal of Fisheries and Coastal Management. 3: 7. doi:10.5455/jfcom.20190318121213. ISSN 2676-2854.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. 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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