Enteroctopus megalocyathus (Gould, 1852)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Mollusca
- class
- Cephalopoda
- order
- Octopoda
- family
- Enteroctopodidae
- genus
- Enteroctopus
- species
- Enteroctopus megalocyathus
Name
- Synonyms
- Enteroctopus juttingi G.C.Robson, 1929
- Octopus megalocyathus Gould, 1852
- Octopus patagonicus Lönnberg, 1898
- Polypus brucei Hoyle, 1912
- Homonyms
- Enteroctopus megalocyathus (Gould, 1852)
- Common names
- Patagonian Red Octopus in English
- Polpo gigante de Patagònia in Italian
- Polvo gigante da Patagônia in Portuguese
- Polvo-gigante-da-Patagónia in Portuguese
- Polvo-gigante-do-sul in Portuguese
- Pop gegant de Patagònia in Catalan–Valencian
- Poulpe géant de Patagonie in French
- Pulpo Colorado in Spanish
- Pulpo del sur in Spanish
- Pulpo del sur, Pulpo chilote in language.
- Pulpo gigante de Chiloé in Spanish
- Pulpo gigante de la patagonia in Spanish
- Purita merah selatan in Indonesian
- Red Octopus in English
- Southern Red Octopus in English
- الأخطبوط الأحمر الجنوبي in Arabic
- Red Octopus in English
- Pulpo Colorado in Spanish
Bibliographic References
- Bonavita, L. A., Zelaya, D. G. & Güller, M. (2026). Benthic cephalopods (Mollusca) from the Austral Southwest Atlantic. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 322: 233-260.
- Gould, A. A., 1852: Mollusca and Shells. United States Exploring Expedition, during the years 1838-1842, 12. 1-510.
- Ibáñez et al. 2009
- Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66:127–154.
- 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.
- Robson, G. C., 1929: null. A Monograph of the Recent Cephalopoda. Part I. Octopodinae. 1-236.
- 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.