Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama II

Plate 190. The Large Melbourne Sepia or Cuttlefish, Sepia apama.

PZ 190 - Illustration - Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama II by John James Wild.

This is the largest and commonest spiecies of Sepia on our coasts, and its internal dorsal shell or " Cuttle-fish Bone " is abundant on the shores everywhere in the Colony.

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