Species Opisthoteuthis persephone Berry, 1918

Museums

Regional Maps

• Opisthoteuthis (Teuthidiscus) persephone Berry, S.S. 1918. Report on the Cephalopoda obtained by the F.I.S. Endeavour in the Great Australian Bight and other southern Australian localities. Biological Results of the Fishing Experiments carried on by the F.I.S. Endeavour 1909-1914 4: 203-298 pls 59-88 [290].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E5718, 42 miles S and E of Genoa Peak, VIC.

  Secondary source:

   Rudman, W.B. 1983. The cephalopod collections of the Australian Museum. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 44: 67-75.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Southeast Transition (11), Central Eastern Province (12), Tasman Basin Province (13), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic.

General References

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. [171]

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