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Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopuses, worms, and other cuttlefish. Their predators include dolphins, larger fish (including sharks), seals, seabirds, and other cuttlefish. The typical life expectancy of a cuttlefish is about 1–2 years. Studies are said to indicate cuttlefish to be among the most intelligent ...
The cuttlebone of a cuttlefish. This is the largest hard part of a cuttlefish, maintaining the rigidity of its body.. The common cuttlefish is one of the largest species of cuttlefish with a mantle length reaching up to 45 cm and a mass of 4 kg on a presumed male, although this is for an exceptional specimen in temperate waters; specimens in subtropical waters rarely surpass a mantle length of ...
The giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama), also known as the Australian giant cuttlefish, [3] is the world's largest cuttlefish species, growing to 50 cm (20 in) in mantle length and up to 100 cm (39 in) in total length (total length meaning the whole length of the body including outstretched tentacles). They can be over 10.5 kg (23 lb) in weight.
The pharaoh cuttlefish (Acanthosepion pharaonis) is a large cuttlefish species, growing to 42 cm in mantle length and 5 kg in weight. [2] [3]Acanthosepion pharaonis is likely a complex of at least three species, Acanthosepion pharaonis I, commonly located in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, A. pharaonis II, located from Japan to the Gulf of Thailand and northern Australia; and A. pharaonis III ...
Sepia orbignyana is a fairly small cuttlefish, growing up to 12 cm in total length. [3] with the females generally being larger than males, male mantle length up to 84mm and females' up to 120mm. [4] It has a slim, oval body and relatively long arms, each having four rows of suckers. [3] There is an obvious lobe of the dorsal mantle which ...
Sepia esculenta, the golden cuttlefish, is a cuttlefish ranging from the Russian seas to the Philippines and throughout the western Pacific. [1] This species of cuttlefish is a nektobenthic organism living with a range of depths between 10m-150m(33 ft-492 ft) [2] but is primarily found within the shallow, coastal waters from japan to the Philippines at a depth between 10m-100m. [3]
Metasepia pfefferi, also known as the flamboyant cuttlefish, is a species of cuttlefish occurring in tropical Indo-Pacific waters off northern Australia, southern New Guinea, as well as numerous islands of the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. The World Register of Marine Species lists the flamboyant cuttlefish under the genus Ascarosepion ...
Sepiola oweniana. d'Orbigny in Ferussac & d'Orbigny, 1839-1841. Sepietta oweniana ( common bobtail squid or common bobtail) is a common marine mollusc from the order Sepiida, the cuttlefish . Common bobtails possess large, rounded pupils, eight arms each having biserial suckers and two arms with 32 tiny uniform-sized suckers in transverse rows ...