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SpeciesSepiidaSepiidae
Molluscs

🐚Giant cuttlefish

Sepia apama Gray, 1849

Sepia apama is een soort in de taxonomische indeling van de inktvissen, een klasse dieren die tot de stam der weekdieren (Mollusca) behoort. De inktvis komt enkel in zout water voor en is in staat om van kleur te veranderen. Hij beweegt zich voort door water in zijn mantel te pompen en het er via de sifon weer krachtig uit te persen. De inktvis is een carnivoor en zijn voedsel bestaat voornamelijk uit vis, krabben, kreeften en weekdieren die ze met de zuignappen op hun grijparmen vangen. De inktvis komt uit het geslacht Sepia en behoort tot de familie Sepiidae. Sepia apama werd in 1849 beschreven door Gray.

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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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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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Family tree

  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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