UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Muusoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911)

WoRMS taxon details

Muusoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911)

AphiaID

1043781 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1043781)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004

Original name

Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911

Synonymised names

Benthoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911) · unaccepted

Octopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911) · unaccepted

Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911) Berry, S. S. (1911). Preliminary notices of some new Pacific cephalopods. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 40(1838):589-592., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845891
page(s): 590 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muusoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1043781 on 2025-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-11-09 21:50:28Z

created

Finn, Julian

2022-10-02 00:37:55Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911) Berry, S. S. (1911). Preliminary notices of some new Pacific cephalopods. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 40(1838):589-592., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15845891
page(s): 590 [details]

new combination reference Gleadall I.G., Guerrero-Kommritz J., Hochberg F.G. & Laptikhovsky V.V. (2010) The inkless octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the Southwest Atlantic. Zoological Science 27:528-553. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	Smoothskin octopus [from synonym]smoothskin octopus [from synonym]	[details]
Russian	Бентоктопус гладкий [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Octopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Muusoctopus leioderma)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 19 proteins) (from synonym Polypus leioderma S. S. Berry, 1911)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) (from synonym Octopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Benthoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Octopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911))