Sepia carinata

Sepia carinata is a species of cuttlefish native to the western Pacific Ocean, specifically southern Japan, Sagami Bay, the South China Sea, and Vietnam. Depth range is lower sublittoral, to 128 m.^[3]

Sepia carinata
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiida
Family:	Sepiidae
Genus:	Sepia
Subgenus:	Doratosepion
Species:	S. carinata
Binomial name
Sepia carinata Sasaki, 1920[2]

Sepia carinata grows to a mantle length of 60 mm.^[3]

Reid et al. note that "this is likely to be a very rare species as it has not been recorded from Japanese waters since its original description".^[3]

The type specimen was collected in the Sagami Sea, Japan (35°04'50"N 139°38'18"E). It is deposited at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.^[4]