Species Idiosepius pygmaeus Steenstrup, 1881
Two-tone Pygmy Squid
Compiler and date details
2024 - Updated by A.L. Reid, CSIRO, Australia.
2012 - Updated by Julian Finn, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Idiosepius pygmaeus Steenstrup, J.J. 1881. Sepiadarium og Idiosepius to nye slaegter af Sepiernes familie. Med Bemaerkninger om de to beslaegtede former Sepioloidea d'Orb. og Spirula Lamarck. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes. Selskabs Skrifter. Kjøbenhavn 6: 213-242 [219].
Type data:
Holotype Indian Sea.Secondary source:
Rochebrune, A.T. 1884. Etude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 8: 74-122 pls 3-6.
Distribution
States
Northern Territory, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Northern and northeastern Australia. Shallow inshore waters.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Distribution References
- Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [39]
- Reid, A. 2005. Family Idiosepiidae. pp. 208-210 in Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (Eds). Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4 Rome : FAO Vol. 1 pp. 1-262. [210]
- Reid, A., Sato, N., Jolly, J. & Strugnell, J. 2023. Two new pygmy squids, Idiosepius kijimuna n. sp. and Kodama jujutsu n. gen., n. sp. from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Marine Biology 170 167 [467]
Ecological Descriptors
Coastal, temperate, tropical.
General References
Jackson, G.D. 1988. The use of statolith microstructures to analyze life-history events in the small tropical cephalopod Idisepius pygmaeus. United States Department of Agriculture. Cooperative Economic Insect Report 87: 265-272 (growth)
Jackson, G.D. 1992. Seasonal abundance of the small tropical sepioid Idiosepius pygmaeus (Cephalopoda: Idiosepiidae) at two localities off Townsville, north Queensland, Australia. Veliger 35(4): 396-401 (abundance)
Jackson, G.D. 1993. Seasonal variation in reproductive investment in the tropical loliginid squid Loligo chinensis and the small tropical sepioid Idiosepius pygmaeus. United States Fisheries Bulletin 91: 260-270 (reproduction)
Jackson, G.D. & Choat, J.H. 1992. Growth in tropical cephalopods: an analysis based on statolith microstructure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [formerly Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada] 49(2): 218-228 (growth)
Lewis, A.R. & Choat, J.H. 1993. Spawning mode and reproductive output of the tropical cephalopod Idiosepius pygmaeus. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [formerly Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada] 50(1): 20-28 (reproduction)
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 [28] (Australian distrbution)
Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [129] (biology)
Reid, A.L. & Strugnell, J.M. 2018. A new pygmy squid, Idiosepius hallami n. sp. (Cephalopoda: Idiosepiidae) from eastern Australia and elevation of the southern endemic ‘notoides’ clade to a new genus, Xipholeptos n. gen. Zootaxa 4369(4): 451-486 [469, Table 5]
Robson, G.C. 1928. Céphalopodes des mers d'Indochine. Notes. Station Maritime de Cauda 10: 1-53 (Australian distribution)
Common Name References
Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [129] (Two-tone Pygmy Squid)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07-Jan-2014 | SEPIOLIDA | 19-Apr-2012 | MODIFIED | Dr Julian Finn (NMV) |
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |