Species Callistoctopus dierythraeus (Norman, 1993)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Octopus dierythraeus Norman, M.D. 1993. Four new octopus species of the Octopus macropus group (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(2): 267-308 [Date published 1993: imprint date 31 December 1992; available 1993] [282].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMV F67007 ♂ (135.0 mm), off W coast of Cape York, Gulf of Carpentaria, QLD, 57 m [10°51'S 140°27'E].
  Paratype(s) NMV F60129 ♂ (59.8 mm), Orpheus Is., Cattle Bay, QLD, 1.5 m [18°34'S 146°29'E]; NMV F60127 ♂ (89.1 mm), Lizard Is., Watsons Bay, Coby Hole, QLD, 16 m [14°40'S 145°28'E]; NMV F60128 ♀ (118.8 mm), Sarina Beach, QLD, 0.3 m [21°24'S 149°19'E].

Generic Combinations

• Callistoctopus dierythraeus (Norman, 1993). —
  Norman, M.D. & Hochberg, F.G. 2005. The current state of octopus taxonomy. Phuket Marine Biological Center Special Publication 66: 127-154

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: benthic, continental shelf, nocturnal, predator.

Juvenile: benthic, continental shelf.

Continental shelf.

General References

Norman, M.D. 1993. Four new octopus species of the Octopus macropus group (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(2): 267-308 [Date published 1993: imprint date 31 December 1992; available 1993] [282] (life history, behaviour, distribution)

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [65] (Red-spot Night Octopus)

History of changes