WoRMS taxon details
Octopoda
- Suborder Cirrata
- Suborder Incirrata
- Suborder Palaeoctopoda accepted as Incirrata (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Hectocotylus Cuvier, 1829 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopoda. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11718 on 2025-10-30
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Nomenclature
basis of record
An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases
[report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details] 
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | achtarmen | [details] |
| English | octopusesKraken octopods | [details] |
| German | Achtarmige Tintenschnecken | [details] |
| Japanese | タコ目 | [details] |
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octopoda)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 049351)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octopoda)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 049351)
To ITIS
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