Species Megalocranchia abyssicola (Goodrich, 1896)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Taonius abyssicola Goodrich, E.S. 1896. Report on a collection of Cephalopoda from the Calcutta Museum. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 2)(Zool. 7: 1-24 [17].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) IM, Laccadive Sea.
• Helicocranchia fisheri Berry, S.S. 1909. Diagnoses of new cephalopods from the Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 37: 407-419 [417].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Nesis, K.N. 1974. A revision of the squid genera Corynoma, Megalocranchia, Sandalvps and Liyuriella (Oegopsida, Cranchiidae). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii. Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Moskva 96: 5-22 [6]

Generic Combinations

• Megalocranchia abyssicola (Goodrich, 1896).

Introduction

Taxon inquirendum.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mesobathypelagic, tropical.

Paralarva: epipelagic.

General References

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): Nesis, K.N. 1974. A revision of the squid genera Corynoma, Megalocranchia, Sandalvps and Liyuriella (Oegopsida, Cranchiidae). Trudy Instituta Okeanologii, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 96: 5–22 (distribution)

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