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Octopus lentus A. E. Verrill, 1880

534736 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:534736)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Cephalopoda
  5. Coleoidea
  6. Octopodiformes
  7. Octopoda
  8. Incirrata
  9. Octopodoidea
  10. Octopodidae
  11. Octopus
  12. Octopus lentus
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bathypolypus bairdii (A. E. Verrill, 1872)
Species
Octopus Cuvier, 1797
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Verrill, A.E. (1880). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America. No. 8. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> ser. 3(19): 137-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36842475
page(s): 138 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus lentus A. E. Verrill, 1880. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=534736 on 2026-10-14
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Octopus lentus A. E. Verrill, 1880. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=534736 on 2026-10-14
Date
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2010-10-21 18:18:05Z
created
Bouchet, Philippe
2018-02-07 15:28:10Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2023-06-18 00:21:19Z
changed
Auffenberg, Kurt

original description Verrill, A.E. (1880). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America. No. 8. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> ser. 3(19): 137-140., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36842475
page(s): 138 [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] 

source of synonymy Muus, B. (2002). The <em>Bathypolypus-Benthoctopus</em> problem of the North Atlantic (Octopodinae, Cephalopoda). <em>Malacologia.</em> 44(2): 175-222., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13143410 [details] 

source of synonymy 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] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (34 publications) 
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To ITIS