Species Macroctopus maorum (Hutton, 1880)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Octopus maorum Hutton, F.W. 1880. Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Wellington : Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department 224 pp. [1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) CMNZ, Dunedin, New Zealand;
  Status unknown, OMNZ, Dunedin, New Zealand.

  Secondary source:

   Robson, G.C. 1929. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 1 The Octopodinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 236 pp., 7 pls. [174].
• Octopus flindersi Cotton, B.C. 1932. Notes on Australian Mollusca, with descriptions of new genera and new species. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 4: 537-547 [543].

  Type data:

   Holotype SAMA D10169 ♂ (176 mm), Largs Bay, SA [34°49'S 138°29'E].

  Secondary source:

   Zeidler, W. 1983. The cephalopod collection in the South Australian Museum. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 44: 77-79.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Stranks, T.S. 1998. The systematic and nomenclatural status of the Octopodinae described from Australia (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: 529-547 [536]

Generic Combinations

• Macroctopus maorum (Hutton, 1880). —
  Norman, M.D., Finn, J.K. & Hochberg, F.G. 2014. Family Octopodidae. pp.36-215 in Jereb, P., Roper, C., Norman, M., & Finn, J. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. Rome, Italy : FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes pp. 353. [199]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: benthic, inshore, predator.

Juvenile: benthic, inshore.

Paralarva: planktonic.

Inshore, predator.

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [67] (Maori Octopus)

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