Species Argonauta argo Linnaeus, 1758
Greater Argonaut
Type data:
Status unknown, LS "the smallest specimen (according to Dodge (1953) from the Mediterranean form" with a height of 54 mm, width 87 mm, Mediterranean (as Pelago, M Indico, Mediterrane).Type locality references:
Dall, W.H. 1908. Report on the dredging operations of the west coast of Central America, to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.M., commanding, XXXVIII. and Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific … etc. XV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 43: 205–487, pls 1–22.Secondary source:
Sweeney, M.J. & Roper, C.F.E. 1998. Classification, type localities, and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586(II): 561-598; Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [195].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Most common in southern WA from Rottnest Island to Albany, also occurs over the North Wesy Shelf, WA and the waters of SA, Bass Strait, norther TAS, eastern VIC and from Fraser Island, QLD to south of Sydney, NSW, and Lord Howe Island. circum global in northern and southern hemispheres from 40°N to 40°S.
IMCRA
Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), 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), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)
Distribution References
- Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [198, fig. 35]
Ecological Descriptors
Continental shelf, epipelagic, inshore, nectonic.
General References
Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [189-200, figs 30-35]
Common Name References
CephBase 2000. [Internet database of world cephalopods]. www.cephbase.dal.ca/. (Greater Argonaut)
Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [199] (Greater Argonaut)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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14-Jan-2015 | ARGONAUTIDAE | 23-Dec-2014 | MODIFIED | ABRS |
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |