Species Taningia danae Joubin, 1931

Museums

Regional Maps

• Taningia danae Joubin, L. 1931. Notes préliminaires sur les Céphalopodes des croisières du Dana (1921–22). 3e Partie. Annales de l'Institut Océanographie, Monaco & Paris 10: 169-211 [181].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMC juv. (Dana Stn 1161(4)), (east of Cape Verde Ils) [14°52'N 28°04'W].

  Secondary source:

   Clarke, M.R. 1967. A deep sea squid, Taningia danae Joubin, 1931. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 19: 127-143.
• Sepia unguiculata Molina, G.I. 1782. Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chile. Libro 4. Bologna : S. Tommaso d'Aquino 367 pp. [nom. nud., inadequate description of type].
• Enoploteuthis molina Férussac, A. de & d'Orbigny, A. 1848. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des Céphalopodes Acétabulifères vivants et fossiles. 2 vols. Paris : J.-B. Baillière Libraire de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine 341pp. [dates 1835–1848] [339] [nom. nud.].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Clarke, M.R. 1967. A deep sea squid, Taningia danae Joubin, 1931. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 19: 127-143 [141]

Distribution

States

South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Transition (11), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Southern Province (8), West Tasmania Transition (9)

Ecological Descriptors

Adult: continental slope, epipelagic, nectonic.

Juvenile: continental slope, epipelagic, planktonic.

General References

Clarke, M.R. 1967. A deep sea squid, Taningia danae Joubin, 1931. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 19: 127-143 (ecology, feeding)

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)

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

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