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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 659055 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Octopus sinensis   d'Orbigny, 1834
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 Synonyms: Octopus vulgaris (mis-identification) Octopus jollyorum Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 659901     Octopus spp.

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WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534443 Name status: taxon inquirendum    Checked on: 2018-02-20 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Reid, A.L., Wilson, N.G., 2015. Octopuses of the Kermadec Islands: Discovery and description of a new member of the Octopus 'vulgaris' complex (O. jollyorum, sp. nov.) and the first description of a male Callistoctopus kermadecensis (Berry, 1914)., Bulletin of the Auckland Museum, Vol. 20: 349-368.
Scientific Name verified against:	Amor, M.D., Norman, M.D., Roura, A., Leite, T.S., Gleadall, I.G., Reid, A., Perales-Raya, C., Lu, C.C., Silvey, C.J., Vidal, E.A.G., Hochberg, F.G., Zheng, X., Strugnell, J.M., 2016. Morphological assessment of the Octopus vulgaris species complex evaluated in light of molecular-based phylogenetic inferences., Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 46(3): 275-288. . doi:10.1111/zsc.12207 doi:10.1111/zsc.12207