Species Nototodarus hawaiiensis (Berry, 1912)

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• Ommastrephes hawaiiensis Berry, S.S. 1912. A catalogue of Japanese Cephalopoda. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 64: 344-380 [434].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 214382 ♀ adult (138 mm ML), off Kahuku Point, Hawaii, in 253–282 fathoms (463-516 m).

  Secondary source:

   Dunning, M.C. & Förch, E.C. 1998. A review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of arrow squids of the genus Notodarus Pfeffer, 1912 (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586(II): 393-404.
• Nototodarus sloani philippinensis Voss, G.L. 1962. Six new species and two new subspecies of cephalopods from the Philippine Islands. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 75: 169-176 [175].

  Type data:

   Holotype USNM 575451 ♀, off Atalaya Point, Batag Is., east coast of Luzon, Philippines.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Dunning, M. 1988. First records of Nototodarus hawaiiensis (Berry, 1912) (Cephalopoda: Ommstrephidae) from northern Australia with a reconsideration of the identity of N. sloani philippinensis Voss, 1962. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 49(1): 159-168

Generic Combinations

• Nototodarus hawaiiensis (Berry, 1912).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

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), Timor Province (2), Cape Province (20), Northwest Transition (3), Northwest Province (4)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental shelf, mesopelagic, nectonic, oceanic, tropical.

Juvenile: mesopelagic, planktonic, tropical.

Continental shelf, continental slope, mesopelagic, oceanic.

History of changes