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Octopus salutii Vérany, 1836 
AphiaID: 140604

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family) > Octopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Octopus Cuvier, 1797
Synonymised
taxa
  Octopus saluzzii Naef, 1923
Sources  basis of record: 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]

additional source: 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English spider octopus  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Χταπόδι αράχνη  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
East North Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Host of  Dicyema banyulensis Furuya & Hochberg, 1999 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyema benedeni Furuya & Hochberg, 1999 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: deep shelf to slope [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140604
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Octopus salutii. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140604 on 2013-05-25
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