Sepia cottoni

{{Short description|Species of cuttlefish}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Barratt, I. |author2=Allcock, L. |date=2012 |title=Sepia cottoni |volume=2012 |page=e.T162622A930857 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162622A930857.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Sepia

| parent = Sepia (Doratosepion)

| species = cottoni

| authority = Adam, 1979 {{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342125 | title = Sepia cottoni Adam, 1979 | access-date = 14 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

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Sepia cottoni is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Indian Ocean, specifically from northwest of Broome (17°31' S) to Armstrong Point, Rottnest Island (32°0' S). It lives at a depth of between 83 and 183 m.Reid, A., P. Jereb, & C.F.E. Roper 2005. Family Sepiidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 57–152.

Sepia cottoni grows to a mantle length of 55 mm.

The type specimen was collected west of Lancelin, Australia ({{coord|31|54|S|114|55|E|scale:250000}}). It is deposited at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.[http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda]