Species Sepia braggi Verco, 1907

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepia braggi Verco, J.C. 1907. Notes on South Australian marine Mollusca with descriptions of new species. Part VI. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 31: 213-230 [Date published 9 Dec] [213].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D14130 cuttlebone, Glenelg, SA.
• Arctosepia treba Iredale, T. 1954. Cuttlefish 'bones' again. The Australian Zoologist 12: 63-82 pls 4, 5 [75].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) AM C133324 (missing anterior ends, not measured), Stanley, TAS [40°46'S 145°18'E];
  Status unknown.
• Arctosepia braggi xera Iredale, T. 1954. Cuttlefish 'bones' again. The Australian Zoologist 12: 63-82 pls 4, 5 [74].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C133310 (77 mm SL), Stanley, TAS [40°46'S 145°18'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Adam, W. & Rees, W.J. 1966. A review of the cephalopod family Sepiidae. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 11: 1-165 [79]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Southern Australian from southern New South Wales, 36º23'S, 150º07'E, to Western Australia, 31º51'S, 115º35'E. Depth range 30-86 m.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental shelf, predator.

Predator.

 

General References

Lu, C.C. & Phillips, J.U. 1985. An annotated checklist of Cephalopoda from Australian waters. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 2: 21-36 [24] (Australian distribution)

Reid, A.L. 2000. Australian cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda : Sepiidae): the 'doratosepion' species complex. Invertebrate Taxonomy 14: 1-76 [13] (re-description, distribution, remarks)

 

Common Name References

Reid, A., Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. 2005. Family Sepiidae. pp. 57-152 in Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (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 Rome : FAO Vol. 1 pp. 1-262. [75] (Slender Cuttlefish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Nov-2013	SEPIIDA	01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Julian Finn (NMV)
		16-Apr-2012	MODIFIED