Species Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849

Museums

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• Octopus cyanea 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. [15].

  Type data:

   Lectotype BMNH 1928.2.4.1 ♂, Australia (as coast of New Holland).

  Subsequent designation references:

  Norman, M.D. 1992. Octoopus cyanea Gray, 1849 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in Australian waters: description, distribution and taxonomy. Bulletin of Marine Science 49(1–2): 20-38.
• Octopus marmoratus Hoyle, W.E. 1885. Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger. Pt 1. The Octopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 5 15: 222-236.
• Octopus horsti Joubin, L. 1898. Sur quelques céphalopodes du Musée Royal de Leyde et descriptions de trois espèces nouvelles. Notes from the Leyden Museum 20: 21-28.
• Polypus herdmani Hoyle, W.E. 1904. Report on the Pearl Fisheries of the Gulf of Manaar, Part II. Report on the Ceylon Pearl Oyster Fisheries, Supplementary Reports 14: 185-200.
• Callistoctopus magnocellatus Taki, I. 1964. On eleven new species of the Cephalopoda from Japan. Including two new genera of Octopodinae. Journal of the Faculty of Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, Hiroshima University 5(2): 297-343.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, inshore.

General References

Heukelem, W.F. 1983. Octopus cyanea. pp. 267-276 in Boyle, P.R. (ed.). Cephalopod Life Cycles. Vol. 1. Species Accounts. London : Academic Press xvii 474 pp. (life history)

Norman, M.D. 1992. Octoopus cyanea Gray, 1849 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) in Australian waters: description, distribution and taxonomy. Bulletin of Marine Science 49(1–2): 20-38 (morphology, distribution)

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [64] (Day Octopus)

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