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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Cephalopoda (class)  »  Octopoda (order)  »  Octopodidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 659004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopus pallidus   Hoyle, 1885
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 23 659 Octopodidae (octopus) - show full list Common Name (AS5300): Pale Octopus Common Names List: pale octopus Organism Type: an octopus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 659901     Octopus spp. Previous Codes (if any): 00 645003, 645003

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Taxon Notes:	This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 645003 (FISHLIST 645003).
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0cc9881b-4f37-4769-8f60-f6cda4898a39 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia ITIS 556188 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342015 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

Record source:	Norman, M. Reid, A., 2000, A guide to squid, cuttlefish and octopuses of Australasia. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.
Scientific Name verified against:	Norman, M.D., Finn, J.K., Hochberg, F.G., 2014. Family Octopodidae. In: Jereb, P. Roper, C.F.E. Norman, M.D. Fin, J.K., Editors, Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and vampire squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fisheries Purposes. No. 4.: 36-215. FAO, Rome 370pp.