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Octopus bimaculoides Pickford & McConnaughey, 1949

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Pickford, G. E., & McConnaughey, B. H. (1949). The Octopus bimaculatus problem: a study in sibling species. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 12(4): 1–66. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=288787

Classification

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

Name

Homonyms
Octopus bimaculoides Pickford & McConnaughey, 1949
Common names
Bimac in English
California Mudflat Octopus in English
California two-spot octopus in English
California two-spot octopus in English
California two-spot octopus in English
Kalifornischer Zweipunktkrake in German
Kalifornischer Zweipunktkrake in German
Kalifornskej chobotnice in Czech
Lesser Two-spot Octopus in English
Polpo a due punti della California in Italian
Polvo-de-bochecha-ocelada in Portuguese
Pulpito con dos manchas in Spanish
Pulpo de dos manchas californiano in Spanish
lesser two-spotted octopus in English
lesser two-spotted octopus in English
lesser twospotted octopus in English
lesser twospotted octopus in English
mud-flat octopus in English
mud-flat octopus in English
petit poulpe à deux taches in French
Малый четырехглазый осьминог in Russian
أخطبوط ذو النقطتين الكاليفورني in Arabic
加州雙斑蛸 in Chinese
California two-spot octopus in English
Kalifornischer Zweipunktkrake in German
lesser two-spotted octopus in English
lesser twospotted octopus in English
mud-flat octopus in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Nesis, K. N., 1987: null. Cephalopods of the World: Squids, Cuttlefishes, Octopuses, and Allies. 351.
  2. Norman M.D. & Hochberg F.G. (2005) The current state of Octopus taxonomy. <i>Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin</i> 66:127–154.
  3. 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.
  4. Pickford, G. E. and B. H. McConnaughey, 1949: The Octopus bimaculatus problem: a study in sibling species. Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection, 12 (4). 1-66.
  5. Pickford, G.E. & McConnaughey, B.H. (1949). The <em>Octopus bimaculatus</em> problem: a study in sibling species. <em>Bulletin of the Bingham Oceanographic Collection.</em> 12(4): 1-66.
  6. Roper, C. F. E. and M. J. Sweeney, 1978: null. A catalog of the type-specimens of Recent Cephalopoda in the National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 278. 1-19.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526.
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