Species Onychoteuthis banksii (Leach, 1817)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loligo banksii Leach, W.E. 1817. Synopsis of the orders, families and genera of the class Cephalopoda. Zoological Miscellany 3: 137-141 [1411].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH 1986266, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.

  Type locality references:

  Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum. 1. Cephalopoda Antepedia. London : British Museum (Natural History) 164 pp.
• Onychoteuthis bergii Lichtenstein, K.M.H. 1820. Von den Sepien mit Krallen. Abhandlungen der Akadamie der Wissenschaften Berlin 1818–1819: 211-226 [223].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Onychoteuthis molinae Lichtenstein, K.M.H. 1820. Von den Sepien mit Krallen. Abhandlungen der Akadamie der Wissenschaften Berlin 1818–1819: 211-226 [pl. 4].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Onykia angulata Lesueur, C.A. 1821. Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 86-101 [99].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP 3-1-628, 643 ♀ and gladius (72 mm), locality unknown.
• Loligo bartlingii Lesueur, C.A. 1821. Descriptions of several new species of cuttlefish. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 86-101 [95].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP (not found), locality unknown.
• Loligo uncinata Quoy, J.R.C. & Gaimard, J.P. 1824. Voyage autour du Monde … Executé sur les corvettes de S.M. l'Uranie et la Physicienne, pendant les années, 1817–1820. Zoologie. Paris 712 pp., atlas of 96 pls. [410].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, MNHP not found, locality unknown.
• Onychoteuthis krohnii Gray, J.E. 1849. Catalogue of the Mollusca in the Collection of the British Museum. 1. Cephalopoda Antepedia. London : British Museum (Natural History) 164 pp. [55].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Loligo bianconii Vérany, J.B. 1851. Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. In, Mollusques Méditeranéens observés, décrits figurés et chromolithographiés d'après le vivant ouvrage dedie à SM le Roi Charles Albert. 1: 1–132. [100].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.
• Onychoteuthis rutilus 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 [482].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, locality unknown.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Pfeffer, G. 1912. Die Cephalopoden der Plankton-Expedition. Zugleich eine monographische Ubersicht der Oegopsiden Cephalopoden. Ergebnisse der Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung 2: 1-815 pls 1-48 [70]

Generic Combinations

• hoteuthis banksii (Leach, 1817).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Kenn Province (17), Northeast Province (18), Northeast Transition (19), Cape Province (20), 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 Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: mesopelagic, nectonic, predator, temperate, tropical.

Juvenile: mesopelagic, planktonic, temperate, tropical.

Predator.

General References

Allan, J. 1945. Planktonic cephalopod larvae from the eastern Australian coast. Records of the Australian Museum 21: 317-350 pls 24-27

Clarke, M.R. 1966. A review of the systematics and ecology of oceanic squids. Advances in Marine Biology 4: 91-300

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