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Taxonomy
Family:
HISTIOTEUTHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Oegopsida (Order)
> Histioteuthidae (Family)
> Histioteuthis (Genus)
> bonnellii (Species)
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Taxonomy
Family:
HISTIOTEUTHIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Oegopsida (Order)
> Histioteuthidae (Family)
> Histioteuthis (Genus)
> bonnellii (Species)
Details: Histioteuthis bonnellii (Férussac, 1834)
Geographical Range:
KAC
Notes:
Marine
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Voss, N.A., Nesis, K.N., Rodhouse, P.G. 1998 The cephalopod family Histioteuthidae (Oegopsida): systematics, biology, and biogeography, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (p.323)
  • Imber, M.J. 1992 Cephalopods eaten by wandering albatrosses (Diomedea exulans L.) breeding at six circumpolar localities, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 22 (p.252)
  • Clark, M.R., MacLeod, N. 1982 Cephalopod remains from the stomachs of sperm whales caught in the Tasman Sea, Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, 43 (p.29)

Key to Geographical Ranges
NZ Map showing Geographical Ranges
The symbols K.A.C.F.M.An. are used to indicate the geographical range of the species. They have been adopted to give an approximation of the range of each species within New Zealand.
K=
Kermadec Islands
A=
Aupourian - Kaipara Harbour, north around North Cape, encompassing the Three Kings Islands and south to East Cape
C=
Cookian - Lower North Island and the northern part of the South Island
F=
Forsterian - Otago, Fiordland and Stewart Island
M=
Moriorian - Chatham Islands, Pitt Island
An=
Antipodean - Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand
Fw =
Freshwater
L =
Land
N =
North Island
S =
South Island
R =
Recent
Sf =
Subfossil
Fo =
Fossil