Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama

Plates 188-190. The Large Melbourne Sepia or Cuttle-fish, Sepia apama (now known as the Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama)

PZ188 - Illustration - Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama, John James Wild.

This is the largest and commonest species of Sepia on our coasts, and its internal dorsal shell or "Cuttle-fish Bone" is abundant on the shores everywhere in the Colony, although it has not been figured before.

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