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Amphioctopus burryi (Voss, 1950) 
AphiaID: 420653

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family) > Amphioctopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Amphioctopus P. Fischer, 1882
Synonymised
taxa		  Octopus burryi Voss, 1950
 Octopus vincenti Pickford, 1955
Sources  basis of record: 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]

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]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Voss G.L. 1950. Two new species of cephalopods from the Florida Keys. Revista de la Sociedad Malacologica "Carlos de la Torre", 7(2): 73-79 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English brownstriped octopus (from synonym)  [details]
English Caribbean armstripe octopus (from synonym)  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
Host of  Dicyema shorti Furuya, Damian & Hochberg, 2002 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420653
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-10-17 13:28:46Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Amphioctopus burryi (Voss, 1950). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420653 on 2013-05-22
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