Species Ommastrephes bartramii (Lesueur, 1821)

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• Loligo bartramii Lesueur, C.A. 1821. Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 86-101 [90].

  Type data:

   Holotype ANSP (specimen lost), not mentioned.

Generic Combinations

• Ommastrephes bartramii (Lesueur, 1821).

Distribution

States

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

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic, nectonic, oceanic, temperate, tropical.

Juvenile: continental shelf, continental slope, epipelagic, oceanic, planktonic, temperate, tropical.

General References

Araya, H. 1983. Fishery biology and stock assessment of Ommastrephes bartrami in the north Pacific Ocean. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 44: 269-283

Dunning, D., Potter, M. & Machida, S. 1981. Hoyo Maru survey shows oceanic squid could have potential. Australian Fisheries 40(12): 26-29 (fishery potential)

Dunning, M.C. 1993. Summer population of Ommastrephes bartramii (Lesueur, 1821) and Todarodes filippovae Adam, 1975 (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae) from the Tasman Sea. pp. 97-118 in Okutani, T., O'Dor, R.K. & Kubodera, T. (eds). Recent Advances in Fisheries Biology. Tokyo : Tokai University Press. (Australian distribution, life history)

Jameson, J. 1981. Bass Strait trials show mesh-netting for red ocean squid has potential. Australian Fisheries 40(12): 20-21, 29 (fishery potential)

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

Young, R.E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off southern California. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 97: 1-159 (distribution)

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