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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopus punctatus Gabb, 1862 
AphiaID: 534578

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCephalopoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorColeoidea (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopodiformes (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorIncirrata (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopodoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopodidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopus (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopus punctatus (Species)
Status Unaccepted: synonym, or anything that is not accepted unaccepted
Accepted name  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEnteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910)
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOctopus Cuvier, 1798
Sources  source of synonymy Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66:127–154. [details]

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Environment marine
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (112 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534578
Taxonomic
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2010-10-20 13:11:51Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2014). Octopus punctatus Gabb, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=534578 on 2015-03-06
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