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Octopus parvus (Sasaki, 1917)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Mollusca
class
Cephalopoda
order
Octopoda
family
Octopodidae
genus
Octopus
species
Octopus parvus

Name

Synonyms
Polypus parvus Sasaki, 1917
Homonyms
Octopus parvus (Sasaki, 1917)
Common names
Japanese pygmy octopus in English
Japanischer Zwergkrake in German
マメダコ in Japanese
Japanese pygmy octopus in English
Japanischer Zwergkrake in German
マメダコ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66:127–154.
  2. 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.
  3. Sasaki, M., 1917: Notes on the Cephalopoda. - II. Diagnoses of four new species of Polypus. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 9 (3). 364-367.
  4. 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.
  5. Toll, Ronald B. and Gilbert L. Voss / N. A. Voss, M. Veccione, R. B. Toll and M. J. Sweeney, eds., 1998: The systematics and nomenclatural status of the Octopodinae described from the west Pacific region. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586 (I-II). 489-520.
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