UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Macroctopus maorum (F. W. Hutton, 1880)

WoRMS taxon details

Macroctopus maorum (F. W. Hutton, 1880)

AphiaID

535605 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:535605)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Macroctopus G. C. Robson, 1928

Original name

Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880

Synonymised names

Octopus communis J. Park, 1885 · unaccepted (synonym)

Octopus flindersi Cotton, 1932 · unaccepted (synonym)

Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880) Hutton, F. W. (1880). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands. Wellington: Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department. xvi, iv, 224., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13296852
page(s): 1 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (origin: native - non-endemic) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Macroctopus maorum (F. W. Hutton, 1880). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535605 on 2025-05-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-22 18:03:32Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-05-08 02:18:57Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2016-05-18 21:50:52Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2017-11-27 22:18:06Z

changed

Finn, Julian

2020-05-04 20:35:20Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2023-09-09 19:58:20Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880) Hutton, F. W. (1880). Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. A systematic and descriptive catalogue of the marine and land shells, and of the soft Polyzoa of New Zealand and the adjacent islands. Wellington: Colonial Museum and Geological Survey Department. xvi, iv, 224., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13296852
page(s): 1 [details]

original description (of Octopus communis J. Park, 1885) Park, J. (1885). Description of a new Octopus. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 17(21): 198-199., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33522987
page(s): 198 [details]

original description (of Octopus flindersi Cotton, 1932) Cotton, B. C. (1932). Notes on Australian mollusca, with descriptions of new genera and new species. Records of The South Australian Museum. 4(4): 537-547., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41026749#page/561/mode/1up
page(s): 543, figs 4, 6 [details]

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

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	New Zealand octopusMaori octopus	[details]
German	Maorikrake	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) (from synonym Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Octopus flindersi Cotton, 1932)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Octopus communis J. Park, 1885)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Macroctopus maorum)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880)