Species Sepia mestus Gray, 1849

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepia mestus 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. [108].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1842.11.9.84 (67 mm SL (71 mm including spine)), Australia; BMNH 1842.11.11.13 (smaller specimen, anterior end missing), Australia.
• Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, A.T. 1884. Etude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris 7 8: 74-122 pls 3-6 [98].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 1-6-175 (130 mm ML), Sydney, NSW [33°53'S 151°13'E]; MNHP 1-6-131 sepion (131 mm SL (139 mm including spine)), Sydney, NSW [33°53'S 151°13'E].
• Solitosepia liliana Iredale, T. 1926. The cuttlefish 'bones' of the Sydney beaches (Phylum Mollusca–Class Cephalopoda). The Australian Zoologist 4: 186-196 pls 22, 23 [188].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C133330 (110.4 mm SL (116 mm including spine)), Manly Beach, NSW [33°48'S 151°17'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Adam, W. 1979. The Sepiidae (Cephalopoda, Decapoda) in the collections of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 7: 113-212 pls 1-13 [205]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Queensland, Escape Reef, 15º47'S 145º47'E to New South Wales, Jervis Bay, Murrays Beach, 35º08'S 150º46'E.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: intertidal.

 

General References

Lu, C.C. 1998. A synopsis of Sepiidae in Australian waters (Sepioidea: Cephalopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: 159-190 [172] (Australian distribution)

Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [64] (biology)

Reid, A., Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. 2005. Family Sepiidae. pp. 57-152 in Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (Eds). Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4 Rome : FAO Vol. 1 pp. 1-262. [144] (geographical 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. [27] (Reaper Cuttlefish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Nov-2013	SEPIIDA	01-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Julian Finn (NMV)
		17-Apr-2012	MODIFIED