WoRMS taxon details
Ascarosepion mestus (Gray, 1849)
1666994 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1666994)
accepted
Species
Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sepia mestus Gray, 1849 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Solitosepia liliana Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Sepia mestus Gray, 1849) Gray, J. E. (1849). <i>Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum I: Cephalopoda antepedia</i>. London: British Museum. 164 pp,. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47563
page(s): 108 [details]
page(s): 108 [details]
Type locality contained in Australia
type locality contained in Australia [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ascarosepion mestus (Gray, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1666994 on 2025-05-01
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Sepia mestus Gray, 1849) Gray, J. E. (1849). <i>Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum I: Cephalopoda antepedia</i>. London: British Museum. 164 pp,. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47563
page(s): 108 [details]
original description (of Solitosepia liliana Iredale, 1926) Iredale, T. (1926). The cuttlefish "bones" of the Sydney beaches (Phylum Mollusca-Class Cephalopoda). <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 4(3):186-196., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38710237 [details]
original description (of Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884) Rochebrune, A. T. de. (1884). Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. <em>Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris.</em> ser. 7, 8(2): 74-122, pls 3-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636806
page(s): 98 [details]
basis of record Lupše, N.; Reid, A.; Taite, M.; Kubodera, T.; Allcock, A. L. (2023). Cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae): the bare bones—an hypothesis of relationships. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 170(8): 93: 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04195-3 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 108 [details]
original description (of Solitosepia liliana Iredale, 1926) Iredale, T. (1926). The cuttlefish "bones" of the Sydney beaches (Phylum Mollusca-Class Cephalopoda). <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 4(3):186-196., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38710237 [details]
original description (of Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884) Rochebrune, A. T. de. (1884). Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. <em>Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris.</em> ser. 7, 8(2): 74-122, pls 3-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636806
page(s): 98 [details]
basis of record Lupše, N.; Reid, A.; Taite, M.; Kubodera, T.; Allcock, A. L. (2023). Cuttlefishes (Cephalopoda, Sepiidae): the bare bones—an hypothesis of relationships. <em>Marine Biology.</em> 170(8): 93: 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04195-3 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | reaper cuttlefish [from synonym] | [details] |
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Sepia mestus) (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To Fishipedia (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Solitosepia liliana Iredale, 1926)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To Malacopics (Ascarosepion mestus (Gray,1849) Australia, Queensland, Noosa Bay)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To Fishipedia (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Solitosepia liliana Iredale, 1926)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
To Malacopics (Ascarosepion mestus (Gray,1849) Australia, Queensland, Noosa Bay)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sepia mestus Gray, 1849)
