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Enteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910) 
AphiaID: 342305

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family) > Enteroctopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Enteroctopus Rochebrune & Mabille, 1889
Synonymised
taxa
  Octopus apollyon (S. S. Berry, 1912)
Octopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910)
Octopus gilbertianus Berry, 1912
Octopus punctatus Gabb, 1862
Paroctopus asper Akimushkin, 1963
Polypus apollyon S. S. Berry, 1912
Sources  basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: 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] [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 North Pacific giant octopus  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Host of  Dicyemennea abreida McConnaughey, 1957 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyemodeca anthinocephalum Furuya, 1999 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (238 nucleotides; 227 proteins)
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: coastal to shelf [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342305
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). Enteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342305 on 2013-05-22
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