Species Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985)
Luminous Bay Squid
Compiler and date details
2012 - Updated by Julian Finn, Museum Victoria, Carlton, Victoria, Australia
- Loliolus noctiluca Lu, C.C., Roper, C.F.E. & Tait, R.W. 1985. A revision of Loliolus (Cephalopoda; Loliginidae), including L. noctiluca, a new species of squid from Australian waters. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 97: 59-85 [59].
Type data:
Holotype NMV F10489 ♂, Port Phillip Bay, VIC [37°53'S 144°50'E].
Generic Combinations
- Uroteuthis (Aestuariolus) noctiluca (Lu, Roper & Tait, 1985). —
Vecchione, M., Shea, E., Bussarawit, S., Anderson, F., Alexeyev, D., Lu, C.C., Okutani, T., Roeleveld, M., Chotiyaputta, C., Roper, C., Jorgensen, E. & Sukramongkol, N. 2005. Systematics of Indo-West Pacific Loliginids. Phuket Marine Biological Center, Research Bulletin 66: 23-26 [25]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania
IMCRA
Northern Shelf Province (25), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Adult: nectonic.
Estuary, inshore, predator.
General References
Jackson, G.D. & Choat, J.H. 1992. Growth in tropical cephalopods: an analysis based on statolith microstructure. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences [formerly Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada] 49(2): 218-228 (growth)
Jereb, P., Vecchione, M. & Roper, C.F.E. 2010. Family Loliginidae. pp. 38-117 in Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (Eds). Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4. Rome : FAO Vol. 2 pp. 1-605. [100] (diagnostic features, geographical distribution, habitat and biology)
Norman, M. 2000. Cephalopods, a world guide. Hakenheim : ConchBooks 320 pp. [138] (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. [40] (Luminous Bay Squid)
History of changes
Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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09-May-2012 | TEUTHIDA | 09-May-2012 | MOVED | Dr Julian Finn (NMV) |
12-Feb-2010 | (import) |