Antique Engraved Illustration Of The Common Cuttlefish. Vintage Illustration Of European Common Cuttlefish On The Right Royalty-Free Cartoon

Antique engraved illustration of the common cuttlefish. Vintage illustration of European common cuttlefish On the right: hatching young common cuttlefish. Old picture. Book illustration published 1907. The common cuttlefish or European common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) is one of the largest and best-known cuttlefish species. They are a migratory species that spend the summer and spring inshore for spawning and then move to depths of 100 to 200m during autumn and winter. They grow to 49 cm in mantle length (ML) and 4 kg in weight. Animals from subtropical seas are smaller and rarely exceed 30 cm in ML.The common cuttlefish is native to at least the Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, and Baltic Sea, although subspecies have been proposed as far south as South Africa. It lives on sand and mud seabeds and it can tolerate brackish water conditions.