WoRMS taxon details

Dosidicus gigas (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)

342291  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342291)

accepted
Species
Dosidicus steenstrupii Pfeffer, 1884 · unaccepted (synonym)
Loligo gigas A. d'Orbigny, 1835 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Ommastrephes giganteus A. d'Orbigny, 1842 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation
Ommastrephes gigas (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Sepia nigra Bosc, 1802 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sepia tunicata Molina, 1782 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Loligo gigas A. d'Orbigny, 1835) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): pl. 4 [18 May 1835] [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Dosidicus gigas (A. d'Orbigny, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342291 on 2024-11-09
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2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
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2011-02-25 22:38:50Z
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2016-06-11 23:30:29Z
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2024-07-21 10:23:19Z
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original description (of Dosidicus eschrichtii Steenstrup, 1857) Steenstrup, J. (1857). Professor Steenstrup foreviste og karakteriserde derpaa et Par nye Cephalopoder. <em>Videnskabelige Meddekekser fra den Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn.</em> 1856(1-2): 120-121., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35633066
page(s): 120 [details] 

original description (of Dosidicus steenstrupii Pfeffer, 1884) Pfeffer G. 1884. Die Cephalopoden des Hamburger Naturhistorischen Museums. <i>Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften, Hamburg</i>, 8(1): 1-30., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/70869
page(s): 20, fig 27 [details] 

original description (of Ommastrephes giganteus A. d'Orbigny, 1842) Férussac, A. E. J. P. F. d'Audebard de & d'Orbigny, A. (1835-1848). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des Céphalopodes acétabulifères vivants et fossiles. pp. [1-96], i-lvi, 1-361, Atlas with 144 plates. Paris, Baillière., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13093019
page(s): Ommastrephes pl 1, figs 11-13 [1842]; 350 [1848] [details] 

original description (of Sepia tunicata Molina, 1782) Molina, J. I. (1782). Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chile, del Signor Abate Giovanni Ignazio Molina. <em>Bologna.</em> i-v + 1-306 + errata + map., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/141623
page(s): 199 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Loligo gigas A. d'Orbigny, 1835) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): pl. 4 [18 May 1835] [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Sepia nigra Bosc, 1802) Bosc, L.A.G. (1802). Histoire Naturelle des Vers : contenant leur description et leurs moeurs, avec figures dessinées d'après nature. <em>Guilleminet, Paris, chez Deterville.</em> 3 vols. 324 pp. + pls. 1-10; 300 pp. + pls. 11-25; 270 pp. + pls. 26-32. 1-324., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41758184
page(s): 47 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. <em>Revista de Biologia Tropical.</em> 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Wormuth J.H. (1998) Workshop deliberations on the Ommastrephidae: A brief history of their systematics and a review of the systematics, distribution, and biology of the genera <i>Martialia</i> Rochebrune and Mabille, 1889, <i>Todaropsis</i> Girard, 1890, <i>Dosidicus</i> Steenstrup, 1857, <i>Hyaloteuthis</i> Gray, 1849, and <i>Eucleoteuthis</i> Berry, 1916. Pp. 373-383, in: Voss N.A., M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney, eds (1998) Systematics and biogeography of cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 586: volume 1: 1-276; volume 2: 277-599.
page(s): 377 [details] 

basis of record Roper, C.F.E., Nigmatullin, C. & Jereb, P. (2010). Family Ommastrephidae. <i>In</i> P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper, eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 2. Myopsid and Oegopsid Squids</i>. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 2. Rome, FAO. <em>pp. 269-347.</em> , available online at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1920e/i1920e.pdf
page(s): 300-304, textfigs 293-294 [details] 

additional source Berry, S. S. (1912). Note on the occurrence of a giant squid off the California coast. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 25(10): 117-118., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1818308 [details] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Habitat neritic to oceanic, epi- to mesopelagic [details]
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Dutch reuzenpijlinktvis  [details]
English jumbo squidjumbo flying squidHumboldt squid  [details]
French encornet géant  [details]
German RiesenPfeilkalmarRiesen-FlugkalmarJumbokalmarHumboldt-KalmarHumboldt Kalmar  [details]