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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 659020 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopus caerulescens   Blainville, 1826
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 659 Octopodidae (octopus) - show full list Common Name: [an 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.

Taxon Notes:	This species is currently listed as a nomen dubium in WoRMS.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3e3bb7d2-a9d8-4d0b-b428-2db70258ff38 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534746 Name status: nomen dubium    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Lu, C.C., 2001. Cephalopoda. In: Wells, A. Houston, W. W. K. , Editors, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 17.2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda: 129-308. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Vic.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.