Species Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ocythoe tuberculata 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 data:

   Status unknown, (lost), Mediterranean Sea.

  Type locality references:

  Roper, C.F.E. & Sweeney, M.J. 1976. The pelagic octopod Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union 1975: 21-28.

  Secondary source:

   Robson, G.C. 1932. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Pt 2. The Octopoda (excluding the Octopodinae). London : British Museum (Natural History) 359 pp. 6 pls.; 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.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

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)

Ecological Descriptors

Pelagic.

General References

Dunning, M.C., Clarke, M.R. & Lu, C.C. 1993. Cephalopods in the diet of oceanic sharks caught off eastern Australia. pp. 119-131 in Okutani, T., O'Dor, R.K. & Kubodera, T. (eds). Recent Advances in Cephalopod Fisheries Biology. Tokyo : Tokai University Press. (predators)

Roper, C.F.E. & Sweeney, M.J. 1976. The pelagic octopod Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814. Bulletin of the American Malacological Union 1975: 21-28 (life history)

Common Name References

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

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [81] (Football Octopus)

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