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Opisthoteuthis californiana S.S.Berry, 1949

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Berry, S. S., 1949: A new Opisthoteuthis from the eastern Pacific. Leaflets in Malacology, 1 (6). 23-26.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Cephalopoda
order
Octopoda
family
Opisthoteuthidae
genus
Opisthoteuthis
species
Opisthoteuthis californiana

Name

Homonyms
Opisthoteuthis californiana S.S.Berry, 1949
Common names
California flapjack octopus in English
flapjack octopus in English
Опистотеутис калифорнийский in Russian
オオメンダコ in Japanese
California flapjack octopus in English
flapjack octopus in English
Опистотеутис калифорнийский in Russian
オオメンダコ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Berry, S. S., 1949: A new Opisthoteuthis from the eastern Pacific. Leaflets in Malacology, 1 (6). 23-26.
  2. Collins M.A. & Villanueva R. (2006) Taxonomy, ecology and behaviour of the cirrate octopods. <i> Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review</i> 44: 277-322.
  3. Hochberg F.G., Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Opisthoteuthidae. pp. 248-261, 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.
  4. Nesis, K. N., 1987: null. Cephalopods of the World: Squids, Cuttlefishes, Octopuses, and Allies. 351.
  5. Sweeney, M. J. and C. F. E. Roper / N. A. Voss, M. Vecchione, R. B. Toll and M. J. Sweeney, eds., 1998: Classification, type localities and type repositories of recent Cephalopoda. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (I-II). 561-599.
  6. Sweeney, M. J., C. F. E. Roper, and F. G. Hochberg, 1988: Catalog of the type specimens of Recent Cephalopoda described by S. Stillman Berry. Malacologia, 29 (1). 7-19.
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