Sepia chirotrema

Sepia chirotrema is a species of cuttlefish native to the southern Indo-Pacific, specifically from Investigator Strait, southern Australia (35°25′S 137°22′E) to Dirk Hartog Island, western Australia (25°45′S 113°03′E). It lives at a depth of between 120 and 210 m.^[4]

Sepia chirotrema
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Sepiida
Family:	Sepiidae
Genus:	Sepia
Subgenus:	Sepia
Species:	S. chirotrema
Binomial name
Sepia chirotrema Berry, 1918[2]
Synonyms[3]
Solitosepia glauerti Cotton, 1929 Solitosepia hendryae Cotton, 1929

Sepia chirotrema grows to a mantle length of approximately 200 mm.^[4]

The type specimen was collected in the Investigator Strait area (35°25′S 137°22′E), south of Kangaroo Island (35°50′S 137°15′E). It was deposited at the Australian Museum in Sydney but no longer exists.^[5]