Species Hapalochlaena maculosa (Hoyle, 1883)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Octopus maculosus Hoyle, W.E. 1883. On a new species of Octopus (O. maculosus). Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 7: 319-322 pl. 6 [319].

  Type data:

   Holotype NMWZ, Sydney, NSW (probable).
• Octopus pictus Brock, J. 1882. Zur Anatomie und Systematik der Cephalopoden. Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie 36: 543-610 pls 34-37 [603] [junior homonym of Octopus pictus Blainville, 1828].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Octopus robustus Brock, J. 1887. Zur Systematik der Cephalopoden. Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 11: 317-322 [317].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Robson, G.C. 1929. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 1 The Octopodinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 236 pp., 7 pls. [211]

 

Generic Combinations

• Hapalochlaena maculosa (Hoyle, 1883). —
  Robson, G.C. 1929. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 1 The Octopodinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 236 pp., 7 pls.

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

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), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Central E coast, Lower E coast
  • South Australia: Great Australian Bight, S Gulfs coast
  • Tasmania: Tas. coast
  • Western Australia: Lower W coast, SW coast

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, littoral, sublittoral.

 

General References

Overath, H. & Boletzky, S. von 1974. Laboratory observations on spawning and embryonic development of a blue-ringed octopus. Marine Biology, Berlin 27: 333-377

Tranter, J.H. & Augustine, O. 1978. Observations on the life history of the blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena maculosa. Marine Biology, Berlin 18: 115-128

 

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [58] (Southern Blue-ringed Octopus)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
07-Feb-2014	OCTOPODIDAE	10-May-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Mark Norman
		12-Feb-2010	(import)