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Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 
AphiaID: 140610

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Argonautoidea (Superfamily) > Ocythoidae (Family) > Ocythoe (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Ocythoe Rafinesque, 1814
Synonymised
taxa
  Octopus tuberculatus Risso, 1854 (junior synonym)
Octopus violaceus Risso, 1854 (junior synonym)
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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details]

additional source: Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

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

additional source: Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Adam, W. (1942). Notes sur les Céphalopodes: 21. A propos d'une publication peu connue de A. Risso 1854 [Notes on the cephalopods: 21. On a hardly known publication from A. Risso 1854]. Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 18(25): 1-36 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English tuberculate octopus  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Ανισοπλόκαμο χταπόδι  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nice [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: Western Atlantic: Massachusetts to the West Indies [details]

Distribution: cosmopolitan, temperate-tropical [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Habitat: epipelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140610
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140610 on 2013-05-23
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