WoRMS taxon details
Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849
AphiaID: 210788
AphiaID: 210788
| 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 |
Callistoctopus magnocellatus Taki, 1964 Octopus cyanea var. gracilis Robson, 1929 Octopus glaber Wülker, 1920 Octopus herdmani Hoyle, 1904 Octopus horsti Joubin, 1898 Octopus marmoratus Hoyle, 1885 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details] additional source: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] status 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 |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Octopus cyanea var. gracilis Robson, 1929 accepted as Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849 | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Octopicola regalis Humes, 1974 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Octopicola stocki Humes, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 24 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: coastal [details] Spelling: Octopus cyanea [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210788 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210788 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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