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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 659039 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Amphioctopus rex   (Nateewathana & Norman, 1999)
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: [an octopus] Organism Type: an octopus Synonyms: Octopus sp. A Octopus membranaceus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 659903     Amphioctopus spp.

Taxon Notes:	A major commercial species in Thailand, normally sold mixed with other Amphioctopus species as "Baby Octopus".
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:45ca2c5d-1375-48c6-ab85-560e2fda9c32 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Dunning, M.C., Norman, M.D., Reid. A.L., 1998. Cephalopods. In: Carpenter, K.E. Niem, V.H, Editors, FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific., 2: 687-826. FAO, Rome
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.