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Octopus hummelincki Adam, 1936 
AphiaID: 341984

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
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

status 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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English bumblebee octopus  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Northestern South Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: coastal to shelf [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341984
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-10-22 18:03:32Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Octopus hummelincki Adam, 1936. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341984 on 2013-05-19
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