Species Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis (Lesson, 1830)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Loligo oualaniensis Lesson, R.P. 1830. Zoologie du voyage autour du Monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les anées 1822–1825, par M.L.I. Duperry. Zoologie 2, Pt 1. Paris pp. 1–24 and atlas of plates (1826). [240].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP (not found), Kusai, Caroline Ils, Pacific Ocean (as Oualan).

  Secondary source:

   Voss, G.L. 1963. Cephalopods of the Philippine Islands. United States National Museum Bulletin 234: 1-180.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental slope, migratory, pelagic, predator.

Eggs: planktonic.

Juvenile: continental slope, pelagic, planktonic, temperate, tropical.

Migratory, predator.

General References

Dunning, D., Potter, M. & Machida, S. 1981. Hoyo Maru survey shows oceanic squid could have potential. Australian Fisheries 40(12): 26-29 (fishery potential)

Dunning, M. & Brandt, S.B. 1985. Distribution and life history of deep-water squid of commercial interest from Australia. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 36: 343-359 [351] (Australian distribution, life history)

Lu, C.C. & Dunning, M. 1982. Identification guide to Australian arrow squid (Family Ommastrephidae). Victorian Institute of Marine Science, Technical Report 2: 1-30 (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 (Australian distribution)

Okutani, T. & Tung, I.-H. 1978. Reviews of 'Cephalopoda: biology of commercially important squids in Japanese and adjacent waters'. Veliger 21: 87-94

Roper, C.F.E. & Young, R.E. 1975. Vertical distribution of pelagic cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 209: 1-51 (vertical migration)

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