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Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847) 
AphiaID: 140596

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family) > Bathypolypus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bathypolypus Grimpe, 1921
Synonymised
taxa
  Bathypolypus faeroensis (Russell, 1909)
Bathypolypus sasakii Robson, 1927
Benthoctopus sasakii Robson, 1927
Octopus arcticus Prosch, 1847
Octopus groenlandicus Steenstrup, 1856
Polypus faeroensis Russell, 1909
Sources  basis of record: Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66:127–154., available online at http://www.pmbc.go.th/webpmbc/ResearchBulletin/Bull%2066%20%20pdf/13.%20Norman.pdf [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

additional source: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

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

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English North Atlantic octopus  [details]
English spoonarm octopus  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Arctic Ocean [details]
Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Dicyemennea canadensis Furuya, Hochberg & Short, 2002 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links Marine Life Information Network - UK
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: neritic to bathyal [details]
Images 
Bathypolypus arcticus
Bathypolypus arcticus
added on 2011-05-27 - author: Gascon, Sarah ()
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Bathypolypus arcticus
Bathypolypus arcticus
added on 2012-05-08 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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Bathypolypus arcticus - side
Bathypolypus arcticus - side
added on 2012-05-08 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Claude Nozères ()
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To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)  
To AnimalsAndEarth (David Shale)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140596
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-10-17 13:28:46Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140596 on 2013-05-25
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