Species Helicocranchia pfefferi Massy, 1907

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• Helicocranchia pfefferi Massy, A.L. 1907. Preliminary notice of new and remarkable cephalopods from the south west coast of Ireland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 20: 377-384 [382].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1909.11.27.10, (south-west coast of Ireland) [51°54'N 11°57'W].

  Type locality references:

  Massy, A.L. 1909. The Cephalopoda Dibranchiata of the coasts of Ireland. Scientific Investigations, Fisheries Branch, Ireland 1907 1: 3-39 pls 1-3.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mesopelagic.

Paralarva: mesopelagic.

Extra Ecological Information

Larva in upper mesopelagic, adult in lower mesopelagic.

General References

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

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 (ontogenetic descent)

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