Sepia hieronis

{{Short description|Species of cuttlefish}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Barratt, I. |author2=Allcock, L. |date=2012 |title=Sepia hieronis |volume=2012 |page=e.T162566A918031 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162566A918031.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Sepia

| parent = Sepia (Rhombosepion)

| species = hieronis

| authority = (Robson, 1924)){{cite web | url =http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342137 | title = Sepia hieronis Robson, 1924 | access-date = 17 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Finn, Julian | year = 2016 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}

| synonyms = *Rhombosepion hieronis Robson, 1924

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Sepia hieronis is a species of cuttlefish native to the southeastern Atlantic Ocean and southwestern Indian Ocean, specifically southern Namibia, from approximately 27°S to Port Alfred, South Africa, and east Africa from 17°S to Kenya and Mozambique. It is also present in the Saya-de-Malha Bank. It lives at depths of between 43 and 500 m, although it is most abundant at 110 to 250 m depth.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 hieronis grows to a mantle length of 70 mm.

The type specimen was collected off Cape Town, South Africa (32°32' to 33°03'S, 17°29' to 17°42'E). It is deposited at The Natural History Museum in London.[http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/newclass.pdf Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda]