CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Cephalopoda (class) » Oegopsida (order) » Octopoteuthidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 622901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopoteuthis spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 622 Octopoteuthidae (octopod squids) - show full list
Common Name:	[an octopod squid]
Organism Type:	an octopod squid
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 622000 Octopoteuthidae
Child Codes:	23 622004 Octopoteuthis megaptera 23 622001 Octopoteuthis rugosa 23 622003 Octopoteuthis sicula 99 230020 Octopoteuthis sp. 1

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:29da20f1-c041-4b45-95d2-588fe2285862 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138271 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2021-08-02 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Reid, A.L., 2016, Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South 446pp.

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report