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Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 
AphiaID: 215276

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Argonautoidea (Superfamily) > Argonautidae (Family) > Argonauta (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Argonauta Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Argonauta nitida Lamarck, 1822
Sources  basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English brown paper nautilus  [details]
English winged argonaut  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Madagascar [details]
Red Sea [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (101 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: Authority Lightfoot, 1786 in MacDonald & Co, 1979 [details]

Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details]

Habitat: epipelagic [details]
Image 
Argonauta hians
Argonauta hians
added on 2012-07-12 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215276
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-11-13 08:24:17Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2001-12-09 09:59:46Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-12-16 01:53:09Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215276 on 2013-05-18
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