Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Decapodiformes > Order Sepiida > Suborder Sepiina > Superfamily Sepioidea

Sepiidae Leach, 1817

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Acanthosepion Rochebrune, 1884
Rhombosepion Rochebrune, 1884
Sepia Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Chinese: Wu-Zéi-Kē sources: 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.

Dutch: inktvissen; zeekatten sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: Cuttlefishes sources: 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.

French: Seiches sources: 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.

Japanese: コウイカ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Spanish, Castillian: Chocos; Choquitos; Jíbias; Sepias

Literature

original description	Leach W.E. (1817). Synopsis of the orders, families and genera of the class Cephalopoda. The Zoological Miscellany; being descriptions of new or interesting animals. 3(30):137-141.
basis of record	Lupše, N.; Reid, A.; Taite, M.; Kubodera, T.; Allcock, A. L. (2023). Cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae): the bare bones—an hypothesis of relationships. Marine Biology. 170(8): 93: 1-31.
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.
additional source	Bello, G. (1996). The original descriptions of the Mediterranean Cephalopods. I: Sepioidea. Bollettino Malacologico. 31:179-194.
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.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sepiidae Leach, 1817. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11723