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Sepia común (Sepia officinalis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020 07 21, DD 62🐚

Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0

SpeciesSepiidaSepiidae
Molluscs

🐚Common cuttlefish

Sepia officinalis Linnaeus, 1758

De gewone zeekat (Sepia officinalis) is een van de bekendste soorten inktvissen. De gewone zeekat is inheems in vrijwel alle delen van de Middellandse Zee, de Noordzee en de Oostzee. Mogelijk komen ook enkele ondersoorten voor ten zuiden van Zuid-Afrika.

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≈ 1/16th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2012.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
4 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 Common cuttlefish

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

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common cuttlefish yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumMollusca
  3. ›classCephalopoda
  4. ›orderSepiida
  5. ›familySepiidae
  6. ›genusSepia
  7. ›speciesSepia officinalis
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  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 officinalis (es), Seiche (fr), Gewöhnlicher Tintenfisch (de), gewone zeekat (nl), Mątwa zwyczajna (pl), 갑오징어 (ko) … and 19 more languages
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Sepia común (Sepia officinalis), Parque natural de la Arrábida, Portugal, 2020 07 21, DD 62Common Cuttlefish at the New England AquariumCuttlefish @ Oceanário de Lisboa
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