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Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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SPECIES
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Published in
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Cuvier, G. (1798). Tableau élémentaire de l’histoire naturelle des animaux. Baudoin, Paris.: i–xvi, 1–710, Pl. 1–14. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=350783
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Mollusca
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class
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Cephalopoda
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order
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Octopoda
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family
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Octopodidae
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genus
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Octopus
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species
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Octopus vulgaris
Name
- Synonyms
- Octopus albus Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus americanus Montfort, 1802
- Octopus bitentaculatus Risso, 1854
- Octopus brevitentaculatus Blainville, 1826
- Octopus cassiopea Gray, 1849
- Octopus cassiopeia Gray, 1849
- Octopus coerulescentes Arbanasich, 1895
- Octopus coerulescentes Fra Piero, 1895
- Octopus heteropus Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus maculatus Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus moschatus Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus niger Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus niger Risso, 1854
- Octopus octopodia Tryon, 1879
- Octopus pilosus Risso, 1826
- Octopus rabassin Risso, 1854
- Octopus ruber Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus rugosus (Bosc, 1792)
- Octopus tetradynamus Rafinesque, 1814
- Octopus tritentaculatus Risso, 1854
- Homonyms
- Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797
- Octopus vulgaris Lamarck, 1798
- Common names
- Almindelig ottearmet blæksprutte in Danish
- Gemeiner Krake in German
- Gemeiner Octopus in German
- Krake in German
- Polyp in German
- achtarm in Dutch
- almindelig ottearmet blæksprutte in language.
- attaarmade bläckfiskar in Swedish
- azeiz in language.
- chobotnice pobřežní in Czech
- common Atlantic octopus in English
- common European octopus in English
- common octopus in language.
- common octopus in English
- common octopus in English
- gemeiner Krake in German
- gewone achtarm in Dutch
- gewone octopus in Dutch
- gewoone octopus in Dutch
- gewöhnlicher Krake in German
- kraak in Dutch
- likurishtja in Albanian
- ma-dako tako in Japanese
- meritursas in Finnish
- obiknovenniy osminog in Russian
- obiknovenniy shprot in Russian
- oktapodi i zakonshëm in Albanian
- ośmiornica zwyczajna in Polish
- pieuvre in French
- pieuvre commune in French
- polpo comune in Italian
- polpo di scoglio in Italian
- polvo in Galician
- polvo comum in Portuguese
- polvo-vulgar in Portuguese
- pop roquer in Catalan–Valencian
- pop roquer in Catalan–Valencian
- pop ver in Catalan–Valencian
- poulpe in French
- poulpe commun in French
- poulpe de roche in French
- pulpo in Spanish
- pulpo común in Spanish
- pulpo de roca in Spanish
- rock scuttle in English
- scuttle in English
- tetëkëmbëshi in Albanian
- Χταπόδι in Greek, Modern (1453-)
- マダコ in Japanese
- Common Octopus in English
Bibliographic References
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Cuvier, G. (1798). Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. Baudoin, Paris.: i-xvi, 1-710, Pl. 1-14.
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Cuvier, G., 1797: null. Tableau elementaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux. 710.
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Gao, Y.- M. ; Natsukari, Y. (1990). Karyological Studies on Seven Cephalopods. <em>VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).</em> 49(2):126-145.
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Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H.L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéque, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C.W.; Mooney, T.A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L.K.; Rice, A.N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Sprie, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M.J.G. Underwater Soniferous Behavior Trait Provided in the World Register of Marine Species. <em>(In preparation).</em>
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Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66:127–154.
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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.
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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.
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Rozbaczylo & Castilla 1987
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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.
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Turgeon, D. D., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, W. K. Emerson, W. G. Lyons, W. Pratt, et al., 1988: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 16. vii + 277.
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