World Register of Deep-Sea species

Deep-Sea taxon details

Octopoda

AphiaID

11718 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11718)

Classification

Authority

Leach, 1818

Status

accepted

Rank

Order

Parent

Octopodiformes

Direct children (2)

Ordering

Alphabetically
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Suborder Cirrata
Suborder Incirrata

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopoda. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11718 on 2026-01-17

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Octopoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11718 on 2026-01-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2008-03-06 07:11:21Z

changed

Decock, Wim

2009-02-04 10:16:53Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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basis of record An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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Language	Name
Dutch	achtarmen	[details]
English	octopusesKraken octopods	[details]
German	Achtarmige Tintenschnecken	[details]
Japanese	タコ目	[details]

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octopoda)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 049351)
To ITIS

Unreviewed

To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 049351)

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