Genus Ocythoe Rafinesque, 1814

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• Ocythoe Rafinesque-Schmaltz, C.S. 1814. Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de M. r. C. S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814. Ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. Palermo : Royale Typographie Militaire 55 pp. + errata. [29].

  Type species:

   Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 by monotypy.

  Secondary source:

   Young, R.E. 1972. The systematics and areal distribution of pelagic cephalopods from the seas off southern California. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 97: 1-159; Roper, C.F.E. & Sweeney, M.J. 1976. The pelagic octopod Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union 1975: 21-28.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Distribution References

General References

Naef, A. 1923. Die Cephalopoden, Systematik. Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel 35 1: 1-863 [749]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)