MolluscaBase - Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

WoRMS name details

Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntype of Sepia hercules. Pilsbry, 1894. Nautilus 7 (12): 144, not figured - catalog no. 66090)

AphiaID

220305 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:220305)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Ascarosepion latimanus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)

Rank

Species

Parent

Sepia Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Synonymised names

Ponderisepia eclogaria Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Sepia hercules Pilsbry, 1895 · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 68 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in New Guinea

type locality contained in New Guinea [details]

Descriptive notes

Description Tentacular clubs half-moon-shaped, their protective membranes fused at base, completely surrounding sucker-bearing surface; a...

Description Tentacular clubs half-moon-shaped, their protective membranes fused at base, completely surrounding sucker-bearing surface; a deep cleft or groove between swimming keel and dorsal protective membrane nearly separates sucker-bearing area from stalk [details]

Distribution Central Indo-Pacific to Japan

Distribution Central Indo-Pacific to Japan [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sepia latimanus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=220305 on 2025-05-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-06-07 07:51:36Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2016-05-23 09:33:23Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2023-06-19 06:30:49Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 68 [details]

basis of record Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Lu, C.C. (2001). Cephalopoda. pp. 129-308 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. eds. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 142 [details]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Gleadall, I. G. (1997). Hong Kong Cephalopada: A brief review of current knowledge and identification of specimens collected in 1995. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the Eighth International Marine Biological Workshop: The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. 503-513. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Reid, A., Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (2005). Family Sepiidae. pp. 57-152, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.
page(s): 91 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unknown type OUM MO-00010 [details]

Unreviewed

Distribution Central Indo-Pacific to Japan [details]

Habitat coastal [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Chinese	Kuān-Wàn-Wu-ZéiBái-Bān-Wu-Zéi	[details]
English	Broadclub cuttlefish	[details]
French	Seiche grandes mains	[details]
German	Breitkeulen-SepieBreitarm-Sepie	[details]
Indonesian	Sotong-besar	[details]
Japanese	コブシメKubushimeKobushime	[details]
Spanish	Sepia mazuda	[details]