Species Octopus australis Hoyle, 1885

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• Octopus australis Hoyle, W.E. 1885. Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger. Pt 1. The Octopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 222-236 [224].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1889.4.24.28.9 ♀ juv., Port Jackson, NSW [33°50'S 151°17'W].
  Paralectotype(s) BMNH 1889.4.24.28.9 ♂.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Tait, R.W. 1982. A taxonomic revision of Octopus australis Hoyle, 1885 (Octopodidae: Cephalopoda) with a redescription of the species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 43: 15-23 pl. 1.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, continental shelf.

General References

Stranks, T.N. & Norman, M.D. 1992 [1993]. Review of the Octopus australis complex from Australia and New Zealand, with description of a new species (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 53(2): 345-373 [346] (redescription)

Tait, R.W. 1982. A taxonomic revision of Octopus australis Hoyle, 1885 (Octopodidae: Cephalopoda) with a redescription of the species. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 43: 15-23 pl. 1 [15]

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [61] (Hammer Octopus)

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