Cuttlefish, Squid, the Class Cephalopoda, Part B: Squids, Cuttlefishes

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Bob Fenner

Sepia pharaonis

Cuttlefish & Squids:

Genus Metasepia:

Metasepia pfefferi Hoyle 1885. The Flamboyant Cuttlefish. Western Pacific; Australia, Indonesia, Philippines. Females to about four inches (body length), males half that. Almost always pictured "disturbed" in its brilliant coloration. Active, "walking", hunting during the day. Uses two long tentacles to grab fishes, crustaceans, gastropods. Two dorsal fins and a "keel" process. Shown below: A vertical of a feeding individual, an "alarmed" one and a batch of eggs laid in an overturned half cocoanut shell. For years divers would pick them up in their hands. Turns out, Metasepia are quite venomous! Indonesia and Malaysia pix.

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Genus Sepia:

Sepia sp. Western Pacific; N. Sulawesi, Indonesia. To about 20cm. in length. Has papillae over its entire body. This may just be a juvenile size S. latimanus... N. Sulawesi pix.
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