Acanthosepion smithi
Descrizione della specie da Wikipedia in inglese descrizione essenziale
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.
Taxonomy Sepia smithi was first described by William Evans Hoyle in 1885. 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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Description The species is usually a varying shade of brown in color, and can have white "dots" on their exterior.
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