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Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797

140605  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140605)

accepted
Species
Octopus cassiopea Gray, 1849 · unaccepted (synonym)
Octopus niger Risso, 1854 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)
Octopus troschelii Targioni-Tozzetti, 1869 · unaccepted (dubious synonym)
Octopus tuberculatus Blainville, 1826 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sepia octopus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sepia polypus Oken, 1815 · unaccepted (synonym)
Sepia rugosa Bosc, 1792 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. <em>Baudoin, Paris.</em> i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 380 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140605 on 2025-12-21
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140605 on 2025-12-21
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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Gofas, Serge
2018-02-07 15:28:10Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Cuvier, G. (1797). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. [Elementary table of the natural history of animals.]. <em>Baudoin, Paris.</em> i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14. [pdf is for copepods :449-456]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11637076
page(s): 380 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Octopus pilosus Risso, 1826) Risso, A. (1826-1827). Histoire naturelle des principales productions de l'Europe Méridionale et particulièrement de celles des environs de Nice et des Alpes Maritimes. <em>[book series].</em> 400 pp., 13 pls. [volumes 1-5. Paris, F.G. Levrault. vol. 3. Mammifères. Oiseaux. Poissons / vol. 4. Mollusques. Annélides / vol. 5. Crustacés. Myriapodes, scorpionides, arachnides et acarides. Insectes. Vers intestinaux. Radiaires. Zoophytes]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/58984
page(s): 4 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Octopus cassiopea Gray, 1849) Gray, J. E. (1849). <i>Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum I: Cephalopoda antepedia</i>. London: British Museum. 164 pp,. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47563
page(s): 9 [details] 

original description (of Octopus tuberculatus Blainville, 1826) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1826). Poulpe, <i>Octopus</i> (Malacoz.). pp. 170-214, <i>in</i>: Dictonnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 43. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25309235
page(s): 187 [details] 

original description (of Sepia octopus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3149 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Sepia polypus Oken, 1815) Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403
page(s): 243 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Sepia rugosa Bosc, 1792) Bosc [L. A. G.] (1792). <i>Sepia rugosa</i>. <i>Actes de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1</i>: 24, Pl. 5
page(s): 24 [details] 

original description (of Octopus brevitentaculatus Blainville, 1826) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1826). Poulpe, <i>Octopus</i> (Malacoz.). pp. 170-214, <i>in</i>: Dictonnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 43. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25309235 [details] 

original description (of Octopus ruber Rafinesque, 1814) Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. [Summary of the discoveries and somiological works of Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz between 1800 and 1814; or reasoned selection of his principal discoveries in zoology and botany, to serve as an introduction to his future works.]. <em>Palerme.</em> :1-55., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/27701
page(s): 28 [details] OpenAccess publication

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] 

context source (HKRMS) City University of Hong Kong. (2013). Provision of Services for Species Identification and Data Analysis ofEpibenthic Organisms from Hong Kong Water. Final report. Environmental Protection Department. Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University [details] 

context source (WoRCS) Digenis, M.; Ragkousis, M.; Dimitriadis, C.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gerovasileiou, V. (2025). Assessing the Motile Fauna of Eastern Mediterranean Marine Caves. <em>Fishes.</em> 10(8): 383., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes10080383 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [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. [details] 

additional source Gao, Y.- M. ; Natsukari, Y. (1990). Karyological Studies on Seven Cephalopods. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 49(2):126-145. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Roper, C.F.E., M.J. Sweeney & C.E. Nauen (1984). FAO Species catalogue. Vol 3. Cephalopods of the World. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries. FAO Fish. Synop. (125), Vol 3: 277 p. [details] 

additional 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] 

additional source Leslie, R. & Lipinski, M. (2018). Phylum Mollusca - Class Cephalopoda. In: Atkinson, L.J. and Sink, K.J. (eds) Field Guide to the Offshore Marine Invertebrates of South Africa. Malachite Marketing and Media: Pretoria. Pp. 321–391. , available online at http://doi.org/10.15493/SAEON.PUB.10000001
page(s): 332 [details] 

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in RoR), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
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LanguageName 
Dutch gewone achtarmachtarm  [details]
English scuttlecommon octopus  [details]
French poulpe de rochepoulpe communpoulpepieuvre  [details]
Galician polvo  [details]
German Krakegewöhnlicher Krakegemeiner Krake  [details]
Hassaniyya azeiz  [details]
Italian polpo di scoglio  [details]
Japanese ma-dako tako  [details]
Portuguese polvo-vulgar  [details]
Russian obiknovenniy shprotobiknovenniy osminog  [details]
Spanish pulpo comúnpulpo  [details]
Marine Life Information Network - UK 
To Barcode of Life (402 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sepia rugosa Bosc, 1792)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Octopus brevitentaculatus Blainville, 1826)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) (from synonym Octopus ruber Rafinesque, 1814)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (712 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (75 publications) (from synonym Octopus tuberculatus Blainville, 1826)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Octopus vulgaris) 
To FAO Species fact sheets 
To Fishipedia 
To GenBank (33693 nucleotides; 31229 proteins) 
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (USNM 856584) left lateral view) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797 (USNM 856584) right lateral view) 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Octopus bitentaculatus Risso, 1854)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus rabassin Risso, 1854)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus pilosus Risso, 1826)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus tritentaculatus Risso, 1854)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus niger Risso, 1854)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus brevitentaculatus Blainville, 1826)
To PESI (from synonym Sepia rugosa Bosc, 1792)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus tuberculatus Blainville, 1826)
To PESI (from synonym Sepia octopus Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Sepia polypus Oken, 1815)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus ruber Rafinesque, 1814)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus cassiopea Gray, 1849)
To PESI (from synonym Octopus troschelii Targioni-Tozzetti, 1869)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 096645) 
To ITIS
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