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

URMO 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

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) 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: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1043781 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Muusoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1043781 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-11-09 21:50:28Z

created

Finn, Julian

2022-10-02 00:37:55Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) 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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
English	smoothskin octopus [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Octopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Muusoctopus leioderma)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 19 proteins)
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))