Sepia mestus Cuttlefish, Red Cuttle, Reaper cuttlefish, Red cuttlefish

Sepia mestusis commonly referred to as Cuttlefish, Red Cuttle, Reaper cuttlefish, Red cuttlefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Not suitable for aquarium keeping. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

10876 

AphiaID:

342152 

Scientific:

Sepia mestus 

German:

Zwerg-Sepie 

English:

Cuttlefish, Red Cuttle, Reaper Cuttlefish, Red Cuttlefish 

Category:

Cephalopoda 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Sepiida (Order) > Sepiidae (Family) > Sepia (Genus) > mestus (Species) 

Initial determination:

Gray, 1849 

Occurrence:

Australia, Endemic species, Queensland (Australia) 

Sea depth:

0 - 22 Meter 

Size:

2.76" - 4.72" (7,7cm - 12,4cm) 

Temperature:

°F - 82.4 °F (°C - 28°C) 

Food:

Invertebrates, No reliable information available, Zoobenthos 

Difficulty:

Not suitable for aquarium keeping 

Offspring:

None 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• 
  Sepia aculeata
  Gemeine Sepie
• Sepia acuminata
• Sepia adami
• Sepia andreana
• Sepia angulata
• 
  Sepia apama
  Riesensepia
• Sepia appelloefi
• Sepia arabica
• Sepia aureomaculata
• Sepia australis
• Sepia bandensis
• Sepia bathyalis
• 
  Sepia bertheloti
  Afrikanischer Tintenfisch, Afrikanische Sepie
• Sepia bidhaia
• Sepia braggi
• Sepia brevimana
• Sepia burnupi
• Sepia carinata
• Sepia chirotrema
• Sepia confusa
• Sepia cottoni
• Sepia cultrata
• Sepia dollfusi
• Sepia dubia
• 
  Sepia elegans
  Schlammsepie, Schlanke Sepia, Kleine Sepie, Zierlicher Tintenfisch, Elegante Sepie
• Sepia elliptica
• Sepia elobyana
• Sepia elongata
• Sepia erostrata
• 
  Sepia esculenta
  Tintenfisch
• Sepia faurei
• Sepia filibrachia
• Sepia foliopeza
• Sepia furcata
• Sepia gibba
• 
  Sepia grahami
  Grahams Sepie
• Sepia hedleyi
• Sepia hieronis
• Sepia hierredda
• Sepia hirunda
• Sepia incerta
• Sepia insignis
• Sepia irvingi
• Sepia ivanovi
• Sepia joubini
• Sepia kiensis
• Sepia kobiensis
• Sepia koilados
• Sepia latimanus
• Sepia limata
• Sepia longipes
• Sepia lorigera
• Sepia lycidas
• Sepia madokai
• Sepia mascarensis
• 
  Sepia mestus
  Zwerg-Sepie
• Sepia mira
• Sepia mirabilis
• Sepia murrayi
• Sepia novaehollandiae
• 
  Sepia officinalis
  Gemeiner Tintenfisch
• Sepia omani
• Sepia opipara
• Sepia orbignyana
• Sepia papillata
• 
  Sepia papuensis
  Papua Tintenfisch, Papua Sepie
• Sepia pardex
• Sepia peterseni
• 
  Sepia pharaonis
  Pharao-Sepia
• Sepia plana
• 
  Sepia plangon
  Trauersepie, Trauertintenfisch
• Sepia plathyconchalis
• Sepia prabahari
• Sepia prashadi
• Sepia pulchra
• Sepia recurvirostra
• Sepia reesi
• Sepia rhoda
• Sepia robsoni
• Sepia rozella
• Sepia savignyi
• Sepia saya
• Sepia senta
• Sepia sewelli
• Sepia simoniana
• 
  Sepia smithi
  Smith's Sepie
• Sepia sokotriensis
• Sepia stellifera
• Sepia subplana
• Sepia subtenuipes
• Sepia sulcata
• Sepia tala
• Sepia tanybracheia
• Sepia tenuipes
• Sepia thurstoni
• Sepia tokioensis
• Sepia trygonina
• Sepia tuberculata
• Sepia typica
• Sepia vecchioni
• Sepia vercoi
• Sepia vermiculata
• Sepia vietnamica
• Sepia vossi
• Sepia whitleyana
• Sepia zanzibarica
• Alle anzeigen

 

More related species
in this lexicon:

• 
  Sepia (Mesembrisepia) latimanus
  Breitarm-Sepia

 

Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2017-07-01 09:19:51 

Last edit:

2020-11-04 07:05:48 

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