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Tremoctopus violaceus Delle Chiaje, 1830 
AphiaID: 141694

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Argonautoidea (Superfamily) > Tremoctopodidae (Family) > Tremoctopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tremoctopus Chiaie, 1830 in 1823-1831
Synonymised
taxa
  Ocythoe mezzaro Risso, 1854 (junior synonym)
Ocythoe velata 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: 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]

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]

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 common blanket octopus  [details]
English palmate octopus  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Χταπόδι παλάμη  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Nice [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (131 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Authority: Chiaie, 1830 in 1823-1831 [details]

Distribution: semi-cosmopolitan [details]

Habitat: epi-mesopelagic [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141694
Taxonomic
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Tremoctopus violaceus Delle Chiaje, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141694 on 2013-05-19
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