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Benthoctopus piscatorum (A. E. Verrill, 1879)

157012 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157012)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Cephalopoda
  5. Coleoidea
  6. Octopodiformes
  7. Octopoda
  8. Incirrata
  9. Octopodoidea
  10. Bathypolypodidae
  11. Benthoctopus
  12. Benthoctopus piscatorum
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bathypolypus bairdii (A. E. Verrill, 1872)
Species
Benthoctopus Grimpe, 1921 accepted as Bathypolypus Grimpe, 1921
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Octopus piscatorum A. E. Verrill, 1879) Verrill, A. E. (1879). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the east coast of North America. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> 3: 309-315., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36843753
page(s): 470 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Benthoctopus piscatorum (A. E. Verrill, 1879). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157012 on 2026-09-28
NARMS (2026). Benthoctopus piscatorum (A. E. Verrill, 1879). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157012 on 2026-09-28
Date
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2005-05-20 11:54:45Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary
2010-09-26 17:15:50Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2018-02-07 15:28:10Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2022-09-21 00:32:45Z
changed
Marshall, Bruce
2023-06-18 00:21:19Z
changed
Auffenberg, Kurt

original description (of Octopus piscatorum A. E. Verrill, 1879) Verrill, A. E. (1879). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the east coast of North America. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> 3: 309-315., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36843753
page(s): 470 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. <em>Scientia Marina.</em> 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04543.21a [details] 

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details] 

basis of record Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
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To GenBank (101 nucleotides; 101 proteins) 
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