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Callistoctopus macropus (Risso, 1826) 
AphiaID: 534558

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family) > Callistoctopus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Callistoctopus Taki, 1964
Synonymised
taxa
  Octopus alderii Vérany, 1851
Octopus didynamus Rafinesque, 1814
Octopus frayedus Rafinesque, 1814
Octopus granosus Blainville, 1826
Octopus macropus Risso, 1826
Polypus macropus (Risso, 1826)
Sources  basis of record: 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: Vérany G. B. (1851). Mollusques méditeranéens [sic] observés, décrits, figurés et chromolitographiés d'après le vivant. 1. Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. Gênes [Genova], imprimerie des Sourds-Muets pp. i-xvi, 1-132, with 44 plates. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/104831
page(s): 32-33, pl. 7 fig. b, c [details] [view taxon]


from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian oktapodi krahëgjatë (from synonym)  [details]
English Atlantic white-spotted octopus (from synonym)  [details]
English white-spotted octopus (from synonym)  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Λευκόστικτο χταπόδι (from synonym)  [details]
Distribution Azores Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Eritrea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indo-Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mtwapa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Nice (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North East Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Reunion (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Somalia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Ungama Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To PESI
Images 
Callistoctopus macropus
Callistoctopus macropus
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Callistoctopus macropus
Callistoctopus macropus
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Callistoctopus macropus
Callistoctopus macropus
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534558
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Callistoctopus macropus (Risso, 1826). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534558 on 2013-05-21
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