Species of cuttlefish
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Sepia smithi, also known as Smith's cuttlefish, is a widely distributed species of cuttlefish in the family "Sepiidae." The species has been observed off the coast of Northern Australia.
Description.
The species is usually a varying shade of brown in color, and can have white "dots" on their exterior. The species has 3 pairs of arms, and both sexes have eye-spots. "Sepia smithi" was first described by William Evans Hoyle in 1885.
Taxonomy.
A 2023 phylogenetic analysis found "Sepia smithi" to be sister to "Sepia elliptica". Both were found to belong to a larger clade of Indo-Pacific species, assigned by the authors to the reinstated genus "Acanthosepion", previously synonymized with "Sepia".
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