Species Cranchia scabra Leach, 1817

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cranchia scabra Leach, W.E. 1817. Synopsis of the orders, families and genera of the class Cephalopoda. Zoological Miscellany 3: 137-141 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1986265, locality unknown.
• Cranchia tenuitentaculata Pfeffer, G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 8: 63-90 3 pls [86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.
• Cranchia hispida Pfeffer, G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. Abhandlungen Herausgegeben vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen 8: 63-90 3 pls [89].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Young, R.E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off southern California. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 97: 1-159 [78]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: bathypelagic.

Paralarva: epipelagic.

Migratory, oceanic, subtropical, tropical.

General References

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

Dilly, P.N. & Dixon, M. 1976. The dermal tubercles of Cranchia scabra (Mollusca, Cephalopoda)—surface structure and development. Journal of Zoology, London 179: 291-295

Lu, C.C. & Phillips, J.U. 1985. An annotated checklist of Cephalopoda from Australian waters. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 2: 21-36 (Australian distribution)

Young, R.E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off southern California. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 97: 1-159

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