Amanda Reid

Australian Museum · Malacology

Examination of the Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959) type specimens held in the Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa revealed that the two female paratypes were not conspecific with the S. maoria holotype male and belong to the genus Iridoteuthis Naef, 1912. Based on this finding, Stoloteuthis maoria is redescribed here to properly define the ma...

Vampyroteuthis infernalis Chun, 1903, is a widely distributed deepwater cephalopod with unique morphology and phylogenetic position. We assessed its habitat and trophic ecology on a global scale via stable isotope analyses of a unique collection of beaks from 104 specimens from the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Cephalopods typically are acti...

Bobtail squid are emerging models for host–microbe interactions, behavior, and development, yet their species diversity and distribution remain poorly characterized. Here, we combine mitochondrial and transcriptome sequences with morphological analysis to describe three species of bobtail squid (Sepiolidae: Sepiolinae) from the Ryukyu archipelago,...

Background: The Great Australian Bight (GAB) comprises the majority of Australia’s southern coastline, but to date its deep water fauna has remained almost unknown. Recent issuing of oil and gas leases in the region has highlighted this lack of baseline biological data and established a pressing need to characterise benthic abyssal fauna. Methods:...

A new species of pygmy squid, Idiosepius hallami n. sp., is described from eastern Australia. It differs from I. notoides Berry, 1921 and I. pygmaeus Steenstrup, 1881 (also found in Australian waters) in a number of traits, including the number of club suckers, shape of the funnel-mantle locking apparatus and the modification of the male hectocotyl...

Octopus kapalae, sp. nov. is described from preserved specimens housed in the Australian Museum, Sydney. The species is found on the edge of the continental shelf off south-eastern Australia, at depths between 176 m and 503 m. The possession of large eggs suggests the young hatch as miniature adults and do not disperse widely. The species may be en...

Reconstructing the sequence of events that has led to extensive speciation in many regions of the world remains one of the biggest frontiers for exploration in marine evolutionary science. To tackle these key questions, we have examined the evolutionary history of a well known group of molluscs: the cuttlefishes, family Sepiidae. The family compris...

Cryptic species are common in the ocean, particularly among marine invertebrates such as octopuses. Delineating cryptic species is particularly problematic in octopus taxonomy where the plasticity recorded among taxonomic characters often results in low resolution at the species level. This study investigated the morphological relationships among s...

Post-mortem drift is a common phenomenon within living shelled cephalopods (Nautilidae, Sepiidae and Spirulidae) and has led to the misinterpretation of geographical ranges in some species. In this study, the distributional ranges of reliably identified cuttlefish and beach-collected sepions (cuttlebones) from the Australian Museum, Museum Victoria...

Australian waters contain the highest diversity of cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish and octopus) found anywhere in the world. They are highly significant ecologically, both as top-level predators and as prey for numerous vertebrates, including fishes, seals, cetaceans and seabirds. Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories is a comprehen...

"Deep-sea" cephalopods are here defined as cephalopods that spend a significant part of their life cycles outside the euphotic zone. In this chapter, the state of knowledge in several aspects of deep-sea cephalopod research are summarized, including information sources for these animals, diversity and general biogeography and life cycles, including...

All records of crustaceans, molluscs, polychaetes, echinoderms and fishes from Sydney Harbour were extracted from the Australian Museum database, and plotted onto a map of Sydney Harbour that was divided into four regions. Records were analysed according to the number of species, genera and families present and over 3000 species were recorded, appr...

Examination of specimens of Euprymna Steenstrup, 1887 from northern Australia led to the discovery of a new species. It is described here as Euprymna pardalota sp. nov. It is distinguished from all but one other nominal species of Euprymna (E. phenax Voss, 1962) in having two rows of suckers on the arms, rather than four rows. It differs from E. ph...

Examination of specimens of Sepioloidea d'Orbigny, 1845, from northern Australia led to the discovery of a new species. It is described here as Sepioloidea magna sp. nov. It is distinguished from the other nominal Sepioloidea species, S. lineolata (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) and S. pacifica (Kirk, 1882), by its size, number of tentacular club suckers, a...

Variation within and between populations of Cephalofovea (Peripatopsidae) has been examined by allozyme, karyological and morphological analyses. Four groups are recognized on the basis of allozyme electrophoresis. One group includes specimens from the type locality of the only described species of the genus, C. tomahmontis. While karyotypic and mo...

Based on two beachwashed cuttlebones, Sepia mestus Gray, 1849 was described in a single sentence. The whole animal remained largely unknown until partial descriptions were published by Adam and Rees (1966) and Lu (1998). Though well known by scuba divers as the ‘Common Sydney Cuttlefish’, or the ‘Red Cuttle’, the lack of an adequate description in...

Reid, Amanda L., Lu, And Chung-Cheng (2005): A new cuttlefish, Sepia filibrachia n. sp., from the South China Sea, with a redescription of Sepia mestus Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae) from eastern Australia. Zootaxa 911: 1-22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.171017

Three cuttlefish belonging to the ‘doratosepion’ species complex (Sepia braggi Verco, 1907, S. cottoni Adam, 1979 and S. vercoi Adam, 1979) were recognised in the most recent review of the Australian Sepiidae (Lu 1998). Five additional species are recorded here for the Australian fauna, S. bidhaia, sp. nov., S. koilados, sp. nov. and S. tanybrachei...

A new genus and species, Lathropatus nemorum (Onychopora : Peripatopsidae), from near Portland in western Victoria is described. This is the first time an ovoviviparous onychophoran has been recorded from Victoria. Six new Ooperipatus Dendy, 1900 from south-eastern New South Wales and Victoria are described: O. birrgus, sp. nov.; O. caesius, sp. no...

The Australasian region is home to the greatest diversity of cephalopods — squid, cuttlefish, octopuses — in the world. Yet, we know very little about these fascinating marine animals. This book provides insights into the biology and behaviour of more than 60 species. From the Giant Squid to the deadly Blue-ringed Octopus, the secret lives of cepha...

Sepia mira (Cotton 1932) is described on the basis of five specimens trawled between 20-72 m off northern New South Wales. The species was known previously only from cuttle-bones collected from a number of eastern Australian localities. This complete description confirms the status of S. mira as valid.

The Peripatopsidae (Onychophora) are analysed by cladistic techniques. In all, 64 taxa, including 41 new Australian species, are included, and 369 character states are studied for these taxa; 36 genera are recognised, 22 of which are new from Australia. New species are described and redescriptions provided for the 13 Australian taxa recognised prio...

Experimental hand pollinations have revealed that the Australian proteaceous shrub Grevillea barklyana is fully self-compatible, although one study suggested that when both self- and outcross pollen were presented to different flowers on the same inflorescence significantly greater seed set resulted from the outcrossed flowers. This study used sing...

Geographical variation in the morphological characters of Australian Rossiinae were examined using principal component analysis (PCA), multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), discriminant function analysis (DFA), analysis of variance (ANOVA) and latitudinal and longitudinal regression analyses. The results show that morphological differences oc...