| 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
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| 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]
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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
North Pacific giant octopus |
[details] |
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| Environment | | marine |
| Distribution | | North Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
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| Host of | |
Dicyemennea abreida McConnaughey, 1957 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Dicyemodeca anthinocephalum Furuya, 1999 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
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| 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
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| Note | |
Habitat: coastal to shelf [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342305 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
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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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