Species Eucleoteuthis luminosa (Sasaki, 1915)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Symplectoteuthis luminosa Sasaki, M. 1915. On three interesting new oegopsids from the Bay of Sagami. Journal of the College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University, Sapporo 6: 131-150 [144].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) TIU 3♂ 7♀, 6 miles off Misaki coast, Japan.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, 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), Cape Province (20), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: epipelagic, mesopelagic, nectonic, oceanic, predator, temperate, tropical.

Juvenile: mesopelagic, oceanic, temperate, tropical.

Predator.

General References

Dunning, M. & Brandt, S.B. 1985. Distribution and life history of deep-water squid of commercial interest from Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 343-359 (Australian distribution, life history)

Lu, C.C. & Dunning, M. 1982. Identification guide to Australian arrow squid (Family Ommastrephidae). Victorian Institute of Marine Science, Technical Report 2: 1-30 (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)

Roper, C.F.E. & Young, R.E. 1975. Vertical distribution of pelagic cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 209: 1-51 (vertical migration)

Wormuth, J. 1998. Workshop deliberations on the Ommastrephidae: A brief history of their systematics and a review of the systematics, distributions, and biology of the genera Martialia Rochebrune and Mabille, 1889, Todaropsis Girard, 1890, Dosidicus Steenstrup, 1857, Hyaloteuthis Gray, 1849, and Eucloteuthis Berry, 1916. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 586: 373-383

Wormuth, J.H. 1976. The biogeography and numerical taxonomy of the oegopsid squid family Ommastrephidae in the Pacific Ocean. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique Monaco 23: 1-87 (distribution)

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