 It was first described by the French naturalist André Étienne d 'Audebert de Férussac and named after René Primevère Lesson . The type specimen was collected by Lesson off the coast of New Guinea during the circumnavigational voyage of the French corvette La Coquille ( 1822 – 1825 ) under the command of Louis Isidore Duperrey . Numerous other species of Sepioteuthis were described from the Pacific and Indian Oceans in the late 19th century and in the early 20th century . In 1939 the Belgian malacologist William Adam examined the specimens of Sepioteuthis recovered from the tropical western Pacific . He synonymised the twelve species then considered valid under Sepioteuthis lessoniana . 
