Species Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loliolus noctiluca Lu, C.C., Roper, C.F.E. & Tait, R.W. 1985. A revision of Loliolus (Cephalopoda; Loliginidae), including L. noctiluca, a new species of squid from Australian waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 97: 59-85 [59].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F10489 ♂, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [37°53'S 144°50'E].

Generic Combinations

• Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985). —
  Vecchione, M., Shea, E., Bussarawit, S., Anderson, F., Alexeyev, D., Lu, C.C., Okutani, T., Roeleveld, M., Chotiyaputta, C., Roper, C., Jorgensen, E. & Sukramongkol, N. 2005. Systematics of Indo-West Pacific Loliginids. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 66: 23-26 [25]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nectonic.

Estuary, inshore, predator.

General References

Jackson, G.D. & Choat, J.H. 1992. Growth in tropical cephalopods: an analysis based on statolith microstructure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [formerly Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada] 49(2): 218-228 (growth)

Jereb, P., Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. 2010. Family Loliginidae. pp. 38-117 in Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (Eds). Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4. Rome : FAO Vol. 2 pp. 1-605. [100] (diagnostic features, geographical distribution, habitat and biology)

Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [138] (biology)

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [40] (Luminous Bay Squid)

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