Sepia officinalis Common cuttlefish

Sepia officinalis is commonly referred to as Common cuttlefish. Difficulty in the aquarium: Only for advanced aquarists. A aquarium size of at least 1000 Liter is recommended. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:

3757 

AphiaID:

141444 

Scientific:

Sepia officinalis 

German:

Gemeiner Tintenfisch 

English:

Common Cuttlefish 

Category:

Cephalopoda 

Family tree:

Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Sepiida (Order) > Sepiidae (Family) > Sepia (Genus) > officinalis (Species) 

Initial determination:

Linnaeus, 1758 

Occurrence:

Tunesien, West Sahara, Straße von Gibraltar, the Baltic Sea, Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean), Albania, Algeria, Azores, Bay of Biscay, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Danmark, East-Atlantic Ocean, Egypt, European Coasts, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Lybia, Madeira, Malta, Mauritania, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Scandinavia, Sierra Leone, South-Africa, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, The Aegan Sea (Mediterranean), the British Isles, the Canary Islands, the Cape Verde Archipelago, the Mediterranean Sea, Turkey 

Sea depth:

0 - 200 Meter 

Habitats:

Seawater, Sea water 

Size:

11.81" - 19.69" (30cm - 50cm) 

Weight:

4 kg 

Temperature:

44.6 °F - 68 °F (7°C - 20°C) 

Food:

Crabs, Fish (little fishes), Schrimps 

Tank:

219.98 gal (~ 1000L)  

Difficulty:

Only for advanced aquarists 

Offspring:

Not available as offspring 

Toxicity:

Toxic hazard unknown 

CITES:

Not evaluated 

Red List:

Least concern (LC)  

Related species at
Catalog of Life:

• Sepia aculeata
• Sepia acuminata
• Sepia adami
• Sepia andreana
• Sepia angulata
• Sepia apama
• Sepia appelloefi
• Sepia arabica
• Sepia aureomaculata
• Sepia australis
• Sepia bandensis
• Sepia bathyalis
• 
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  Afrikanischer Tintenfisch, Afrikanische Sepie
• Sepia bidhaia
• Sepia braggi
• Sepia brevimana
• Sepia burnupi
• Sepia carinata
• Sepia chirotrema
• Sepia confusa
• Sepia cottoni
• Sepia cultrata
• Sepia dollfusi
• Sepia dubia
• Sepia elegans
• Sepia elliptica
• Sepia elobyana
• Sepia elongata
• Sepia erostrata
• Sepia esculenta
• Sepia faurei
• Sepia filibrachia
• Sepia foliopeza
• Sepia furcata
• Sepia gibba
• 
  Sepia grahami
  Grahams Sepie
• Sepia hedleyi
• Sepia hieronis
• Sepia hierredda
• Sepia hirunda
• Sepia incerta
• Sepia insignis
• Sepia irvingi
• Sepia ivanovi
• Sepia joubini
• Sepia kiensis
• Sepia kobiensis
• Sepia koilados
• Sepia latimanus
• Sepia limata
• Sepia longipes
• Sepia lorigera
• Sepia lycidas
• Sepia madokai
• Sepia mascarensis
• Sepia mestus
• Sepia mira
• Sepia mirabilis
• Sepia murrayi
• Sepia novaehollandiae
• 
  Sepia officinalis
  Gemeiner Tintenfisch
• Sepia omani
• Sepia opipara
• Sepia orbignyana
• Sepia papillata
• Sepia papuensis
• Sepia pardex
• Sepia peterseni
• Sepia pharaonis
• Sepia plana
• Sepia plangon
• Sepia plathyconchalis
• Sepia prabahari
• Sepia prashadi
• Sepia pulchra
• Sepia recurvirostra
• Sepia reesi
• Sepia rhoda
• Sepia robsoni
• Sepia rozella
• Sepia savignyi
• Sepia saya
• Sepia senta
• Sepia sewelli
• Sepia simoniana
• Sepia smithi
• Sepia sokotriensis
• Sepia stellifera
• Sepia subplana
• Sepia subtenuipes
• Sepia sulcata
• Sepia tala
• Sepia tanybracheia
• Sepia tenuipes
• Sepia thurstoni
• Sepia tokioensis
• Sepia trygonina
• Sepia tuberculata
• Sepia typica
• Sepia vecchioni
• Sepia vercoi
• Sepia vermiculata
• Sepia vietnamica
• Sepia vossi
• Sepia whitleyana
• Sepia zanzibarica
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Author:

Meerwasser-Lexikon Team

Publisher:

Meerwasser-Lexikon.de

Created:

2011-06-20 09:23:45 

Last edit:

2025-07-15 19:16:10 

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