Species Octopus superciliosus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832

Museums

Regional Maps

• Octopus superciliosus Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Mollusques. pp. 1–320 in, Zoologie du voyage de l'Astrolabe sous les ordres du Capitane Dumont d'Urville, pendant les années 1826–1829. Zoologie. 2 vols Paris : J. Tastu, Editeur-Imprimeur. [88].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀, Western Port Bay, VIC (as le port Western dans le detroit de Bass, à la Nouvelle-Hollande).
  Paratype(s) MNHP ♀; MNHP.

  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.
• Octopus westerniensis Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1832. Mollusques. pp. 1–320 in, Zoologie du voyage de l'Astrolabe sous les ordres du Capitane Dumont d'Urville, pendant les années 1826–1829. Zoologie. 2 vols Paris : J. Tastu, Editeur-Imprimeur. [88] [the name was used by Férussac & d'Orbigny (1835–48: pl. 10, fig. 3) for O. superciliosus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832; the error was corrected in their text; O. westerniensis seems to have been Quoy's earlier manuscript name for O. superciliosus].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

  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.
• Octopus duplex 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 [226].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1889.4.24.31-32 ♂ ♀, (off Twofold Bay), NSW [36°59'S 150°20'E].

  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.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Robson, G.C. 1929. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 1 The Octopodinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 236 pp., 7 pls. [165]
• Stranks, T.S. 1998. The systematic and nomenclatural status of the Octopodinae described from Australia (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: 529-547

Distribution

States

Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Unknown.

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [72] (Frilled Pygmy Octopus)

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