MarBEF Data System

URMO name details

Metasepia pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885)

AphiaID

342366 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342366)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted Name

Ascarosepion pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885)

Rank

Species

Parent

Metasepia Hoyle, 1885 accepted as Ascarosepion Rochebrune, 1884

Orig. name

Sepia (Metasepia) pfefferi Hoyle, 1885

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, II: The Decapoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. series 5, 16:181-203., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29995905 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Metasepia pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885). Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342366 on 2024-05-01

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Metasepia pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342366 on 2024-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-27 18:55:09Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2011-02-22 20:06:55Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-05-15 00:46:20Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2016-05-16 06:55:40Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2023-06-19 06:30:49Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, II: The Decapoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. series 5, 16:181-203., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29995905 [details]

additional source Reid, A., Jereb, P. & Roper, C.F.E. (2005). Family Sepiidae. pp. 57-152, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.
page(s): 60 [details]

source of synonymy Lu, C.C. (2001). Cephalopoda. pp. 129-308 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. eds. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp. [details]