WoRMS taxon details
Ascarosepion Rochebrune, 1884
876727 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:876727)
accepted
Genus
Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884 accepted as Ascarosepion mestus (Gray, 1849) (type by subsequent designation)
Amplisepia Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Glyptosepia Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mesembrisepia Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Metasepia Hoyle, 1885 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ponderisepia Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sepia (Metasepia) Hoyle, 1885 · unaccepted (original combination)
Solitosepia Iredale, 1926 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Ascarosepion apama (J. E. Gray, 1849)
- Species Ascarosepion bandense (Adam, 1939)
- Species Ascarosepion cultratum (Hoyle, 1885)
- Species Ascarosepion filibrachia (A. Reid & Lu, 2005)
- Species Ascarosepion latimanus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832)
- Species Ascarosepion mestus (Gray, 1849)
- Species Ascarosepion novaehollandiae (Hoyle, 1909)
- Species Ascarosepion opiparum (Iredale, 1926)
- Species Ascarosepion papuense (Hoyle, 1885)
- Species Ascarosepion pfefferi (Hoyle, 1885)
- Species Ascarosepion plangon (J. E. Gray, 1849)
- Species Ascarosepion rozella (Iredale, 1926)
- Species Ascarosepion tullbergi (Appellöf, 1886)
- Species Ascarosepion verreauxi Rochebrune, 1884 accepted as Ascarosepion mestus (Gray, 1849) (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
neuter
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): 99 [details]
page(s): 99 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ascarosepion Rochebrune, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876727 on 2025-05-28
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Nomenclature
original description
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): 99 [details]
original description (of Glyptosepia 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
page(s): 191 [details]
original description (of Solitosepia 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 Sepia (Metasepia) Hoyle, 1885) Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, II: The Decapoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> series 5, 16:181-203., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29995905
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Mesembrisepia 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
page(s): 188, 190 [details]
original description (of Amplisepia 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 Ponderisepia Iredale, 1926) Iredale, T. (1926). The biology of the North-west Islet, Capricorn Group (D.) Marine molluscs. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 4: 237-240, pl. 35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38710310 [details]
page(s): 99 [details]
original description (of Glyptosepia 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
page(s): 191 [details]
original description (of Solitosepia 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 Sepia (Metasepia) Hoyle, 1885) Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, II: The Decapoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> series 5, 16:181-203., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29995905
page(s): 199 [details]
original description (of Mesembrisepia 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
page(s): 188, 190 [details]
original description (of Amplisepia 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 Ponderisepia Iredale, 1926) Iredale, T. (1926). The biology of the North-west Islet, Capricorn Group (D.) Marine molluscs. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 4: 237-240, pl. 35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38710310 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
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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additional source
Lu, C.C. (2001). Cephalopoda. pp. 129-308 <em>in</em> Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. eds. <em>Zoological Catalogue of Australia</em>. Vol. 17.2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp.
note: treated as synonym of Sepia [details]
note: treated as synonym of Sepia [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Metasepia) (from synonym Metasepia Hoyle, 1885)
To Genbank (from synonym Metasepia Hoyle, 1885)
To Genbank (from synonym Metasepia Hoyle, 1885)
