CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	23 659029 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopus superciliosus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 659 Octopodidae (octopus) - show full list
Common Name:	frilled pygmy octopus
Organism Type:	an octopus
Synonyms:	Octopus duplex Octopus westerniensis
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):	23 659023

Scientific Name Notes:

While this species is currently included in the genus Octopus, the generic placement is uncertain and this group is in urgent need of revision.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3fbca576-4554-4e27-bced-bc23a580dffd Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	1719
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:342030 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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

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