Sepiella Mangkangunga
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''Sepiella mangkangunga'' is a species of
cuttlefish Cuttlefish or cuttles are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of ...
native to the
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, specifically off the Northern Territory in
Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
( to ). It lives at depths from 1.1 to 3.3 m.Reid, A., P. Jereb, & C.F.E. Roper 2005. Family Sepiidae. ''In:'' P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. ''Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae)''. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 57–152. Females are on average slightly larger than males. They grow to 59 and 58 mm in
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length, respectively. The type specimen was collected off Stingray Head in the Northern Territory (). It is deposited at the Museum and Art Gallery in Darwin.Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
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Cuttlefish Molluscs described in 1998 Molluscs of Australia Taxa named by Amanda Reid (malacologist) {{cuttlefish-stub