Species Abraliopsis gilchristi (Robson, 1924)

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• Abralia gilchristi Robson, C.W. 1924. Preliminary report on the Cephalopoda (Decapoda) procured by the S.S. Pickle. Report. Fisheries & Marine Biological Survey, Union of South Africa 3: 1-14 [3].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1924.9.9.41–42 2 ♂, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Enoploteuthis neozelandica Dell, R.K. 1959. Some additional New Zealand cephalopods from Cook Strait. Zoological Publications of the Victoria University, Wellington 25: 1-12 [6].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Voss, G.L. 1967. Some bathypelagic cephalopods from South African waters. Annals of the South African Museum 50: 61-88 [61]

Generic Combinations

• Abraliopsis gilchristi (Robson, 1924).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Northwest Province (4), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mesopelagic, migratory, tropical.

Continental shelf, continental slope, oceanic, temperate.

Extra Ecological Information

Adult a mesopelagic migrator.

General References

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

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)

Riddell, D.J. 1985. The Enoploteuthidae (Cephalopoda: Oegopsida) of the New Zealand region. New Zealand Fisheries Research Bulletin 27: 1-52 (distribution)

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