Species Sepia plangon Gray, 1849

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sepia plangon 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. [104].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) BMNH 1963.I.26.W 1 animal without sepion, Port Jackson, NSW (as Australia) [33°51'S 151°16'E]; BMNH 1842.II.9.85 1 broken sepion, Port Jackson, NSW (as Australia) [33°51'S 151°16'E].

  Secondary source:

   Adam, W. & Rees, W.J. 1966. A review of the cephalopod family Sepiidae. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 11: 1-165.
• Solitosepia plangon adhaesa Iredale, T. 1926. The biology of North-West Islet, Capricorn Group. Marine molluscs. The Australian Zoologist 4: 237-240 [238].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C133304 (82.7 mm SL (88.3 mm including spine)), North-West Islet, QLD [23°18'S 151°42'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Adam, W. & Rees, W.J. 1966. A review of the cephalopod family Sepiidae. Scientific Reports of the John Murray Expedition 11: 1-165 [42]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Eastern Australia from Gulf of Carpentaria to New South Wales, Sydney, 33º53'S 151º13'E.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, predator.

 

General References

Lu, C.C. 1998. A synopsis of Sepiidae in Australian waters (Sepioidea: Cephalopoda). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: 159-190 [178] (Australian distribution)

Lu, C.C. & Phillips, J.U. 1985. An annotated checklist of Cephalopoda from Australian waters. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Victoria 2: 21-36 [26] (Australian distribution)

Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [76] (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. [109] (diagnostic features, geographical distribution, habitat and biology)

 

Common Name References

Norman, M.D. & Reid, A.L. 2000. A Guide to Squid, Cuttlefish and Octopus of Australasia. Collingwood : CSIRO Publishing 96 pp. [30] (Mourning Cuttlefish)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
12-Nov-2013	SEPIIDA	04-Nov-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Julian Finn (NMV)
		19-Apr-2012	MODIFIED