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Taxonomy
Family:
TREMOCTOPODIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Octopodiformes (Superorder)
> Octopoda (Order)
> Incirrata (Suborder)
> Argonautoidea (Superfamily)
> Tremoctopodidae (Family)
> Tremoctopus (Genus)
> robsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Octopus (Philonexis) d'Orbigny, 1835
=Philonexis d'Orbigny, 1835
Synonymised Names:
=Tremoctopus violaceus of authors not delle Chiaje
=Tremoctopus gracilis of authors not Eydoux & Souleyet
Images: Tremoctopus robsoni Kirk, 1884
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Taxonomy
Family:
TREMOCTOPODIDAE
Full Classification:
Mollusca (Phylum)
> Cephalopoda (Class)
> Coleoida (Subclass)
> Octopodiformes (Superorder)
> Octopoda (Order)
> Incirrata (Suborder)
> Argonautoidea (Superfamily)
> Tremoctopodidae (Family)
> Tremoctopus (Genus)
> robsoni (Species)
Genus Synonyms:
=Octopus (Philonexis) d'Orbigny, 1835
=Philonexis d'Orbigny, 1835
Synonymised Names:
=Tremoctopus violaceus of authors not delle Chiaje
=Tremoctopus gracilis of authors not Eydoux & Souleyet
Details: Tremoctopus robsoni Kirk, 1884
Distribution:
Off Three Kings Islands, off Great Barrier Island and White Island
Geographical Range:
KAC
Notes:
Marine, Native - Endemic
Distribution Map
 
References and Publications
  • O'Shea, S. 1999 The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Octopoda (Mollusca: Cephalopoda), NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Wellington, 112 (p.107)
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland (p.445)
  • Thomas, R.F. 1977 Systematics, distribution, and biology of Cephalopods of the genus Tremoctopus (Octopoda: Tremoctopodidae), Bulletin of Marine Science, 27(3) (p.369)

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