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Octopus bimaculoides Pickford & McConnaughey, 1949

341952  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341952)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Cephalopoda (Class)
  5. Coleoidea (Subclass)
  6. Octopodiformes (Superorder)
  7. Octopoda (Order)
  8. Incirrata (Suborder)
  9. Octopodoidea (Superfamily)
  10. Octopodidae (Family)
  11. Octopus (Genus)
  12. Octopus bimaculoides (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Pickford, G.E. & McConnaughey, B.H. (1949). The <em>Octopus bimaculatus</em> problem: a study in sibling species. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection.</em> 12(4): 1-66.
page(s): 14 [details]   
Type locality contained in California  
type locality contained in California [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Octopus bimaculoides Pickford & McConnaughey, 1949. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341952 on 2024-05-10
Date
action
by
2008-03-27 18:55:09Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2010-10-21 18:18:05Z
checked
Bouchet, Philippe
2018-01-22 06:58:31Z
changed
Finn, Julian
2018-02-07 15:28:10Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Pickford, G.E. & McConnaughey, B.H. (1949). The <em>Octopus bimaculatus</em> problem: a study in sibling species. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection.</em> 12(4): 1-66.
page(s): 14 [details]   

basis of record Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date</i>. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
page(s): 48 [details]   

status source Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66:127–154. [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Habitat coastal [details]
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English mud-flat octopuslesser two-spotted octopuslesser twospotted octopusCalifornia two-spot octopus  [details]
German Kalifornischer Zweipunktkrake  [details]
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