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

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Octopus maorum F. W. Hutton, 1880 · unaccepted (superseded combination)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

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Macroctopus maorum (F. W. Hutton, 1880). Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535605 on 2025-09-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Macroctopus maorum (F. W. Hutton, 1880). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=535605 on 2025-09-11

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

[taxonomic tree]

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]

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

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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