Sepia aureomaculata

Sepia aureomaculata is a species of cuttlefish native to the northwestern Pacific Ocean, specifically the Kii Channel, Tosa Bay, Hyuga-Nada, and the East China Sea. It lives at a depth of between 190 and 350 m.^[3]

Sepia aureomaculata
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiida
Family:	Sepiidae
Genus:	Sepia
Subgenus:	Doratosepion
Species:	S. aureomaculata
Binomial name
Sepia aureomaculata Okutani & Horikawa, in Okutani, Tagawa & Horikawa, 1987 [2]

Sepia aureomaculata grows to a mantle length of 160 mm.^[3]

The type specimen was collected in Tosa Bay, Japan and is deposited at the National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo.^[4] Marine biota in Tosa Bay have been found to have relatively high concentrations of PCBs, DDT and a variety of organochlorine chemical pesticides, compared to similar biota in the Sulu Sea.^{[citation needed]}