CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	23 659038 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopus micros Norman, 2001
Rank:	Species

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

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:4d5077e1-c9fb-4cf0-b2d0-547209e281e1 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:457972 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:	Norman, M.D., 2001. New octopus species from Queensland., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Vol. 46(2): 677-690.
Scientific Name verified against:	Reid, A.L., 2016, Cephalopods of Australia and Sub-Antarctic Territories. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South 446pp.

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