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Argonauta hians Solander, 1786
Winged argonaut| Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050 |
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS
Cephalopoda | Octopoda | Argonautidae
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology
Pelagic; depth range 0 - 1280 m (Ref. 100197). Tropical
Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions
Indo-West Pacific and Central and South Atlantic. Tropical to boreal.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm Max length : 20.0 cm ML male/unsexed; (Ref. 122435); 50 cm ML (female)
Total length to at least 11.8 cm. Shell length to 10.6 cm. Total length to at least 1.2 cm (excluding hectocotylus), and 4 cm (including hectecotylus) (Ref. 98986). Before maturation, female argonauts utilize their glands on their dorsal arms to produce a shell, which it uses as a home. Primarily feeds on jellyfish and is typically found associated with them, most likely as a camouflage. Included in their diet are pelagic mollusks, octopods, crustaceans, comb jellyfishes and fishes. Males are small and possesses a third arm which detaches during mating and carries the spermatophores to the females. They are observed to inhabit salps (Ref. 98471).
Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae
Members of the class Cephalopoda are gonochoric. Male and female adults usually die shortly after spawning and brooding, respectively. Mating behavior: Males perform various displays to attract potential females for copulation. During copulation, male grasp the female and inserts the hectocotylus into the female's mantle cavity where fertilization usually occurs. Life cycle: Embryos hatch into planktonic stage and live for some time before they grow larger and take up a benthic existence as adults.
Main reference
References | Coordinator | Collaborators
Turgeon, D.D., J.F. Quinn Jr., A.E. Bogan, E.V. Coan, F.G. Hochberg, W.G. Lyons, P.M. Mikkelsen, R.J. Neves, C.F.E. Roper, G. Rosenberg, B. Roth, A. Scheltema, F.G. Thompson, M. Vecchione and J.D. Willams. 1998. (Ref. 1667)
IUCN Red List Status
(Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 20 August 2014
CITES status (Ref. 108899)
Not Evaluated
CMS (Ref. 116361)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
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BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record
Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature
(Ref. 115969): 7.6 - 18.8, mean 11.7 (based on 1478 cells).
Price category
(Ref. 80766):
Unknown.