Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama II

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

Australian Giant Cuttlefish, Sepia apama II by John James Wild.

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

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