RAMS taxon details
Amphitretus Hoyle, 1885
341407 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341407)
accepted
Genus
Amphitretus pelagicus Hoyle, 1885 (type by monotypy)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, I: The Octopoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> series 5, 15:222-236., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15821176 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Amphitretus Hoyle, 1885. Accessed through: De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2021) Register of Antarctic Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/rams/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341407 on 2026-06-30
De Broyer, C.; Clarke, A.; Koubbi, P.; Pakhomov, E.; Scott, F.; Vanden Berghe, E. and Danis, B. (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Marine Species. Amphitretus Hoyle, 1885. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/RAMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341407 on 2026-06-30
Date
action
by
original description
Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, I: The Octopoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> series 5, 15:222-236., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15821176 [details]
additional source Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Amphitretidae. pp. 217-219, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <em>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date.</em> Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]
additional source Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Amphitretidae. pp. 217-219, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <em>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date.</em> Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality