Marine Species Traits - Octopus nocturnus Norman & Sweeney, 1997

WoRMS name details

Octopus nocturnus Norman & Sweeney, 1997

AphiaID

535846 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:535846)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (original combination)

Accepted name

Callistoctopus nocturnus (Norman & Sweeney, 1997)

Rank

Species

Parent

Octopus Cuvier, 1798

Original name

Octopus nocturnus Norman & Sweeney, 1997

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Norman, M.D. & Sweeney, M.J. (1997). The shallow-water octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodinae) of the Philippine Islands. <em>Invertebrate Taxonomy.</em> 11, 89-140., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IT95026
page(s): 117 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus nocturnus Norman & Sweeney, 1997. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535846 on 2025-07-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-25 17:59:26Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-11-18 07:10:58Z

changed

Finn, Julian

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Norman, M.D. & Sweeney, M.J. (1997). The shallow-water octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodinae) of the Philippine Islands. <em>Invertebrate Taxonomy.</em> 11, 89-140., available online at http://www.publish.csiro.au/is/IT95026
page(s): 117 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	Philippine octopusPhilippine night octopus	[details]
German	Nachtkrake	[details]

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