Species Argonauta nodosus Lightfoot, 1786

Museums

Regional Maps

• Argonauta nodosus Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. [96].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Cape of Good Hope.

  Secondary source:

   Robson, G.C. 1932. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 2. The Octopoda (excluding the Octopodinae). London : British Museum (Natural History) 359 pp. 6 pls.
• Argonauta oryzata Meuschen, F.C. 1787. Museum Geversium, sive index rerum naturalium …comparavit A. Gevers publice distrahendum. Rotterdam. [252].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Robson, G.C. 1932. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 2. The Octopoda (excluding the Octopodinae). London : British Museum (Natural History) 359 pp. 6 pls. [198]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

From Capricorn Bunker Group, Great Barrier Reef, QLD to Bruny Island, TAS and west to Port Lincoln, SA; circum-global in the Southern Hemispher between 10° and 44°S

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), 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)

Distribution References

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] [153, figs 11-21]

 

Common Name References

CephBase 2000. [Internet database of world cephalopods]. www.cephbase.dal.ca/. (Knobby 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] [167] (Tuberculated Argonaut)

Lightfoot, J. 1786. A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland: deceased which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co., etc. London viii, 194 pp. + 44 pp. (Tuberculated Paper Nautilus)

Mawe, J. 1823. The Linnean System of Chonchology, describing the orders, genera and species of shells, arranged into divisions and families. London : Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme & Brown 207 pp. (Tuberculated Argonaut)

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [80] (Southern Argonaut)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Jan-2015	ARGONAUTIDAE	23-Mar-2015	MODIFIED	ABRS
07-Feb-2014	ARGONAUTIDAE	06-Feb-2014	MODIFIED	Dr Mark Norman
		12-Feb-2010	(import)