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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OMMASTREPHIDAE: TODARODINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Oegopsida (Order)
> Ommastrephidae (Family)
> Todarodinae (Subfamily)
> Nototodarus (Genus)
> sloanii (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Ommastrephes sloanii Gray, 1849
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Taxonomy
Family: Subfamily:
OMMASTREPHIDAE: TODARODINAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Decapodiformes (Superorder)
> Oegopsida (Order)
> Ommastrephidae (Family)
> Todarodinae (Subfamily)
> Nototodarus (Genus)
> sloanii (Species)
Synonymised Names:
=Ommastrephes sloanii Gray, 1849
Details: Nototodarus sloanii (Gray, 1849)
Size/Grows to:
Animal 400mm (mantle)
Distribution:
South of the subtropical convergence on the east coast of the South Island, and east to the Chatham Islands. 30 to 800 metres. Most commonly around 300 metres
Geographical Range:
CFMAn
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • Dunning, M., Förch, E.C. 1998 A review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of arrow squids of the genus Nototodarus Pfeffer, 1912 (Cephalopoda: Ommastrephidae), Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (p.394)
  • Smith, P.J., Mattlin, R.H., Roeleveld, M.A., Okutani, T. 1986 Arrow squids of the genus Nototodarus in New Zealand waters: systematics, biology and fisheries, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 21(2) (p.321)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.441)
  • Gray, J.E. 1849 Cephalopoda antepedia, Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum, 1 (p.61) Original Description

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