Australian Museum Research Institute, 1 William Street, Sydney NSW 2010, Australia. .
Zootaxa. 2021 Jul 28;5005(4):503-537. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.3.
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 male and female characters. Its occurrence in Australian waters is formally recognised for the first time; the species was known previously only from New Zealand. The Iridoteuthis taxon was found to be new and is described as I. merlini, n. sp. Like S. maoria, this new species occurs in New Zealand and southern Australia. A second new Iridoteuthis from New Zealand was also discovered among the Te Papa collection and is described here as I. lophia, n. sp. The sucker pedicels in males of this latter species are highly and uniquely modified.
在新西兰 Te Papa Tongarewa 博物馆检查了 Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959) 的模式标本后，发现这两个雌性副模与 S. maoria 模式雄体不同种，属于 Iridoteuthis Naef, 1912 属。基于这一发现，本文重新描述了 Stoloteuthis maoria，以正确定义雄性和雌性特征。这是首次正式确认该物种在澳大利亚水域的存在；以前仅在新西兰已知该物种。Iridoteuthis 分类群被发现是新的，并被描述为 I. merlini，n. sp. 与 Stoloteuthis maoria 一样，这个新物种分布在新西兰和澳大利亚南部。在 Te Papa 馆藏中还发现了另一个来自新西兰的新的 Iridoteuthis，本文将其描述为 I. lophia，n. sp. 后一种的雄性吸盘足梗高度且独特地改变了。
