Species Ancistrocheirus lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1835)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Onychoteuthis lesueurii D'Orbigny, A. in Ferussac, A. de & d'Orbigny, A. 1835. Histoire naturelle générale et particuliere des Céphalopodes Acétabulifères vivants et fossiles. 2 vols. Paris : J.-B. Baillière Libraire de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine 341pp. [141].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, locality unknown.
• Loligo alessandrinii Vérany, J.B. 1851. Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. In, Mollusques Méditeranéens observés, décrits figurés et chromolithographiés d'après le vivant ouvrage dedie à SM le Roi Charles Albert. 1: 1–132. [99].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Enoploteuthis polyonyx Troschel, E. 1857. Bermerkungen uber die Cephalopoden von Messina. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 23: 41-76 [67].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Abralia megalops Verrill, A.E. 1882. Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks of the southern coast of New England, No. 7, and some additions to the fauna of Vineyard Sound. American Journal of Science 24: 360-371 [364].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Enoploteuthis pallida Pfeffer, G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 8: 63-90 3 pls [78].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Lu, C.C. 2001. Cephalopoda. pp. 129-308 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2 Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [Date published 3 July 2001]

Generic Combinations

• Ancistrocheirus lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1835).

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Northwest Shelf Province (27)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: nectonic Paralarva: planktonic Mesopelagic: temperature, tropical.

General References

Clarke, M.R. 1966. A review of the systematics and ecology of oceanic squids. Advances in Marine Biology 4: 91-300

Dunning, M., McKinnon, S., Lu, C.C., Yeatman, J. & Cameron, D. 1994. Demersal cephalopods of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 45: 351-374

Roper, C.F.E. & Jereb, P. 2010. Family Architeuthidae. pp. 121-123 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. [119]

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