Species Octopus tetricus Gould, 1852

Museums

Regional Maps

• Octopus tetricus Gould, A.A. 1852. Mollusca of the United States Exploring Expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes. Mollusca of the Wilkes Expedition 12: 1-510 pls 1-52 [474].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown (lost), near Sydney, NSW.

  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 gibbsi O'Shea, S. 1999. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 112: 1-280.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: benthic, inshore, predator.

Juvenile: continental shelf, oceanic, planktonic.

Inshore, predator.

General References

Joll, L.M. 1983. Octopus tetricus. pp. 325-334 in Boyle, P.R. (ed.). Cephalopod Life Cycles. Vol. 1. Species Accounts. London : Academic Press xvii 474 pp. (life history)

Robson, G.C. 1929. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 1 The Octopodinae. London : British Museum (Natural History) 236 pp., 7 pls. [98] (misidentified as Sepia boscii Lesueur, 1821, nom. nud.))

Common Name References

CephBase 2000. [Internet database of world cephalopods]. www.cephbase.dal.ca/. (Gloomy Octopus)

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [73] (Common Sydney Octopus)

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