{"scientificNameAuthorship":"Gould, 1852","RecordModifiedOn":"2018-10-03","CAAB_code":"23659006","phylum":"Mollusca","Notes":"True <I>O. tetricus</I> (this taxon) occurs on the east coast of Australia and northern New Zealand. A related species which has been consistently cited in the literature as <I>O. tetricus</I> occurs on the west Australian coast, but is here considered to be a separate CAAB taxon, <I>O. sp. cf. tetricus</I> (CAAB 23 659005), following Amor et al, 2014.","habitat":"Marine unspecified<br>","NameVerifiedSource":"Amor, M.D., Norman, M.D., Cameron, H.E., Strugnell, J.M., 2014. Allopatric speciation within a cryptic species complex of Australasian octopuses., <i>PLoS one</i>, Vol. 9(6): 1-13. . e98982","Parent_Id":23659901,"scientificName":"Octopus tetricus","kingdom":"Animalia","order":"Octopoda","otherVernacularNames":"gloomy octopus<AFR>|common Sydney octopus","Reference":"Norman, M. Reid, A., 2000, <i>A guide to squid, cuttlefish and octopuses of Australasia</i>. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.","vernacularName":"Gloomy Octopus","ChildCodes":"","RecordCreatedOn":"2001-03-23","scientificNameID_WoRMS":"urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342036","family":"Octopodidae","standardName":"Gloomy Octopus (AS5300)","class":"Cephalopoda","scientificNameID_AFD":"urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:bd670b95-5d67-4298-83d9-f2578f215699","CAAB_status":"Valid"}