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Sepia trygonina (Rochebrune, 1884)
ILLUSTRATIONS.—Adam and Rees, 1966, pl. 20: figs. 129–131, pl. 37: figs. 220, 221, pl. 46: fig. 277.
DIAGNOSIS.—Arms I of male shorter than other arms; all arm suckers quadriserial. Lateral arms of female with widely separated biserial suckers distally. Tentacular club with unequal suckers. Sepion long, with raised, plateau-shaped striated zone. Anterior striae L-shaped. Limbs of inner cone raised, following the lateral margins of this plateau. Spine present.
ORIGINAL REFERENCE.—Rochebrune, 1884:97.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Red Sea.
TYPES.—Holotype: Missing; deposited in Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, sepion only.
Paratypes: None.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.—Indian Ocean from Saya-de-Malha Bank and Zanzibar to southern India, Red Sea, and possibly Persian Gulf.
- bibliographic citation
- Voss, N. A. and Sweeney, M. J. 1998. "Systematics and Biogeography of cephalopods. Volume I." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-276. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.586
