Species Chtenopteryx sicula (Vérany, 1851)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepioteuthis sicula 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. [75].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Messina, Mediterranean Sea.
• Chtenopteryx fimbriatus Appellöf, A. 1889. Teuthologische Beiträge. 1. Chtenopteryx n. g., Veranya sicula Krohn, Calliteuthis Verrill. Bergens Museums Arsberetning 1889: 1-34 [4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Ctenopteryx cyprinoides Joubin, L. 1894. Note sur les céphalopodes recueillis dans l'estomac d'un dauphin de la Mediterranée. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 19: 61-68 [64].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Calliteuthis nevroptera Jatta, G. 1896. I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica). Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel 23: 1-268 [118].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pfeffer, G. 1912. Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine monographische Ubersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2: 1-815 pls 1-48 [332]

Generic Combinations

• Ctenopteryx siculus (Vérany, 1851).

Introduction

Escánez et al. (2018) compared specimens of Chtenopteryx sicula from a range of localities using molecular data and found that the taxon as currently recognised is not monophyletic. Four clades were recovered in the molecular analysis. The type locality for Chtenopteryx sicula is Messina, Sicily (Mediterranean Sea) and specimens from the Atlantic Ocean appear to conform to this species. Two other species from the Pacific Ocean have been wrongly assigned to Chtenopteryx sicula. One of these clades likely corresponds to C. sepioloides, a valid species from the Pacific Ocean and the remaining clade corresponds to a sibling species that needs to be described, Further genetic and morphological analysis is needed to determine to what species the Australian representatives of Chtenopteryx belong.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Lord Howe Province (14), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Norfolk Island Province (21), Cocos (Keeling) Island Province (22), Christmas Island Province (23), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Northwest Transition (3), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Mesopelagic, temperate.

General References

Allan, J. 1945. Planktonic cephalopod larvae from the eastern Australian coast. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 317-350 pls 24-27

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

Escánez, A., Roura, Á., Riera, R., Gonzalez, Á. F., & Guerra, Á. 2018. New data on the systematics of comb-fin squids Chtenopteryx spp. (Cephalopoda: Chtenopterygidae) from the Canary Islands. Zoological Studies 57 40: 1-11

Watson, G.F. & Chaloupka, M.Y. 1982. Zooplankton of Bass Strait: species composition, systematics and artificial key to species. Victorian Institute of Marine Science, Technical Report 1: 1-123

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [47] (Comb-finned Squid)

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