Species Opisthoteuthis pluto Berry, 1918

Museums

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• Opisthoteuthis (Teuthidiscus) pluto 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 [284].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM E3628 (not found), (Great Australian Bight), SA [129°28'E].
  Paratype(s) AM E4375 juv.

  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, Queensland, 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), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5), Central Western Province (6), Southwest Transition (7), Southern Province (8)

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. [170] (as Opisthoteuthis pluto Berry, 1918)

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