Marine Species Traits - Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797

Traits taxon details

Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797

AphiaID

140605 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140605)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Octopus Cuvier, 1798

Original name

Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797

Environment

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

Original description

Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. Baudoin, Paris. i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 380 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140605 on 2025-12-14

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140605 on 2025-12-14

Taxonomic edit history

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action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. Baudoin, Paris. i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 380 [details]

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

context source (HKRMS) City University of Hong Kong. (2013). Provision of Services for Species Identification and Data Analysis ofEpibenthic Organisms from Hong Kong Water. Final report. Environmental Protection Department. Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University [details]

context source (WoRCS) Digenis, M.; Ragkousis, M.; Dimitriadis, C.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2025). Assessing the Motile Fauna of Eastern Mediterranean Marine Caves. Fishes. 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

basis of record Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]

additional source Gao, Y.- M. ; Natsukari, Y. (1990). Karyological Studies on Seven Cephalopods. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 49(2):126-145. [details] Available for editors

additional source Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details]

additional source Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin 66:127–154. [details]

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]