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WoRMS name details

Octopus mototi Norman, 1993

342003  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342003)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Cephalopoda (Class)
  5. Coleoidea (Subclass)
  6. Octopodiformes (Superorder)
  7. Octopoda (Order)
  8. Incirrata (Suborder)
  9. Octopodoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Octopodidae (Family)
  11. Octopus (Genus)
  12. Octopus mototi (Species)
 unaccepted (original combination)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Norman, M.D. (1993). Ocellate octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: description of two new species and redescription of <em>Octopus polyzenia</em> Grey, 1849. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria.</em> 53(2): 309-344., available online at https://museumsvictoria.com.au/media/4926/jmmv19925314.pdf
page(s): 329 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus mototi Norman, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342003 on 2025-06-16
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2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
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van der Land, Jacob
2010-10-25 17:59:26Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2016-04-25 22:36:27Z
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Finn, Julian
2017-11-16 22:19:15Z
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Finn, Julian

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Nomenclature

original description Norman, M.D. (1993). Ocellate octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia: description of two new species and redescription of <em>Octopus polyzenia</em> Grey, 1849. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria.</em> 53(2): 309-344., available online at https://museumsvictoria.com.au/media/4926/jmmv19925314.pdf
page(s): 329 [details] 

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat coastal [details]
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Japanese ベニツケダコ  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To ITIS
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