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SpeciesSepiidaSepiidae
Molluscs

🐚Giant cuttlefish

Sepia apama Gray, 1849

La Seiche géante (Sepia apama), dénommée Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Seiche géante australienne) par les anglophones, est une espèce de seiches présente dans les eaux australiennes allant de Brisbane dans le Queensland aux côtes de l'Australie-Méridionale. C'est la plus grande espèce de seiches au monde. Les individus de l'espèce Sepia apama mesurent, tentacules étendus, environ 1 m de long et pèse plus de 10,5 kg. La seiche géante est une espèce démersale néritique. Ce sont des prédateurs carnivores, opportunistes et voraces qui se nourrissent principalement de crustacés et de poissons.

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Also called
Giant Australian cuttlefish, Giant Australian Cuttlefish
Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
11 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Giant cuttlefish

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Body mass
11 kgmaximum recorded
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Mantle length
0.5 mmaximum recorded, mantle length
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Volume l
11 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumMollusca
  3. ›classCephalopoda
  4. ›orderSepiida
  5. ›familySepiidae
  6. ›genusAscarosepion
  7. ›speciesAscarosepion apama
Full lineage
  1. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  2. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  3. superorderDecapodiformes
  4. familySepiidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  3. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  4. subclassColeoidea
  5. superorderDecapodiformes
  6. familySepiidae
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Sepia apama (es), Sepia apama (fr), דיונון אוסטרלי (he), Riesensepia (de), オーストラリアコウイカ (ja), Sepia apama (sk) … and 13 more languages
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