Species Profile
Sepia
Cuttlefish
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Sepia lives in coastal seas.
It is active and carnivorous.
Advanced cephalopod mollusc.
Size & Structure
01
Broad flattened body
02
Eight arms and two tentacles
03
Cuttlebone present
04
Colour-changing skin
Sepia — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Highly developed
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Internal cuttlebone
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator
Marine food chain
Controls fish populations
Economic Importance
Seafood
Ink production
Research value