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Octopus rubescens Berry, 1953 
AphiaID: 342023

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]

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]

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 East Pacific red octopus  [details]
English red octopus  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East North Pacific [details]
Host of  Conocyema adminicula McConnaughey, 1949 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyema apollyoni Nouvel, 1947 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyema balamuthi McConnaughey, 1949 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyemennea adscita McConnaughey, 1949 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342023
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-10-20 13:11:51Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Octopus rubescens Berry, 1953. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342023 on 2013-05-23
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