Species Argonauta argo Linnaeus, 1758

Museums

Regional Maps

• Argonauta argo Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [708].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, LS "the smallest specimen (according to Dodge (1953) from the Mediterranean form" with a height of 54 mm, width 87 mm, Mediterranean (as Pelago, M Indico, Mediterrane).

  Type locality references:

  Dall, W.H. 1908. Report on the dredging operations of the west coast of Central America, to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Comm. Steamer "Albatross", during 1891, Lieut. Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.M., commanding, XXXVIII. and Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific … etc. XV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 43: 205–487, pls 1–22.

  Secondary source:

   Sweeney, M.J. & Roper, C.F.E. 1998. Classification, type localities, and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586(II): 561-598; Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [195].

 

Distribution

States

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

Extra Distribution Information

Most common in southern WA from Rottnest Island to Albany, also occurs over the North Wesy Shelf, WA and the waters of SA, Bass Strait, norther TAS, eastern VIC and from Fraser Island, QLD to south of Sydney, NSW, and Lord Howe Island. circum global in northern and southern hemispheres from 40°N to 40°S.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Lord Howe Province (14), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, epipelagic, inshore, nectonic.

 

General References

Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [189-200, figs 30-35]

Robson, G.C. 1932. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 2. The Octopoda (excluding the Octopodinae). London : British Museum (Natural History) 359 pp. 6 pls. (life history)

 

Common Name References

CephBase 2000. [Internet database of world cephalopods]. www.cephbase.dal.ca/. (Greater Argonaut)

Finn, J.K. 2013. Taxonomy and biology of the argonauts (Cephalopoda: Argonautidae) with particular reference to Australian material. Molluscan Research 33(3): 143-222 [Date published August 2013] [199] (Greater Argonaut)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
14-Jan-2015	ARGONAUTIDAE	23-Dec-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
		12-Feb-2010	(import)