UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Octopus mercatoris Adam, 1937

URMO name details

Octopus mercatoris Adam, 1937

AphiaID

341997 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341997)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Paroctopus mercatoris (Adam, 1937)

Rank

Species

Parent

Octopus Cuvier, 1798

Original name

Octopus mercatoris Adam, 1937

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Octopus mercatoris Adam, 1937. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: http://www.marinespecies.org/Urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341997 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Octopus mercatoris Adam, 1937. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341997 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-27 18:55:09Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-10-25 17:59:26Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-05-04 07:17:44Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

additional source Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701�709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico�Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)
To ITIS