WoRMS taxon details

Bolitaena pygmaea (A. E. Verrill, 1884)

410340  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:410340)

accepted
Species
Bolitaena microtyla [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling of microcotyla)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Eledonella pygmaea A. E. Verrill, 1884) Verrill A. E. (1884). Second catalogue of mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England Coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <i>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences</i>, 6(1): 139-294, pl. 28-32, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477234
page(s): 145 [details]   
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Bolitaena pygmaea (A. E. Verrill, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=410340 on 2024-03-28
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2009-08-03 13:51:55Z
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original description  (of Eledonella pygmaea A. E. Verrill, 1884) Verrill A. E. (1884). Second catalogue of mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England Coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <i>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences</i>, 6(1): 139-294, pl. 28-32, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477234
page(s): 145 [details]   

original description  (of Bolitaena microcotyla Steenstrup, 1886) Hoyle, W. E. (1886). Report on the Cephalopoda collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 16 (part 44): i-vi, 1–245, pl. 1-33., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-44/README.htm [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

basis of record Young, Richard E. 2008. Bolitaena pygmaea (Verrill 1884). Bolitaena Steenstrup 1859. Version 28 April 2008. http://tolweb.org/Bolitaena_pygmaea/20223/2008.04.28 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/  [details]   

additional source 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]   

additional source Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Bolitanidae. pp. 221-224, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date</i>. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]   

identification resource Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). <em>Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan</em>. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
page(s): 438 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Habitat Abyssopelagic [details]

Habitat Bathypelagic [details]
LanguageName 
Chinese Dān-Pán-Xiāo  [details]
English Pygmy pelagic octopus  [details]
Russian Болитена малая  [details]