Alloposidae

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy: Rank
FAMILY: Published in
Verrill, A. E. (1880). The Cephalopods of the North-Eastern coast of America. Part II. The smaller Cephalopods, including the “squids” and the octopi, with other allied forms. i>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 5: 259–446. https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=40599

Classification

kingdom
Animalia: phylum
Mollusca: class
Cephalopoda: order
Octopoda: family
Alloposidae

Name

Homonyms: Alloposidae
Common names: Alloposids in English; Polpo a sette braccia in Italian; Polpo a sette tentacoli in Italian; Polvos-balão in Portuguese; Pulpo gigante de siete brazos in Spanish; Seven-armed Octopuses in English; halifronblekkspruter in Norwegian Bokmål; osmohnátovité in Slovak; カンテンダコ科 in Japanese; 異夫蛸科 in Chinese; Seven-armed Octopuses in language.; halifronblekkspruter in Norwegian Bokmål; Yì-Fū-Xiāo-Kē in Chinese; カンテンダコ科 in Japanese

Bibliographic References

Finn J.K. (2014). Family Alloposidae. pp. 225-228, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
Gärdenfors, Hall, Hallingbäck, Hansson & Hedström (2003) Djur, svampar och växter i Sverige 2003. Förteckning över antal arter per familj.
Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
Parker, S.P. (ed). (1982). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 volumes.
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.
Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.
Verrill, A. E. (1881). The Cephalopods of the Northeastern Coast of America. Part II. the smaller cephalopods, including the “ squids'” and the octopi, with other allied forms. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 5: 259-446, pl. 26-56.
Verrill, A. E., 1881: Report on the Cephalopods, and some additional species dredged by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer "Fish Hawk," during the season of 1880. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 8 (5). 99-116.
Voss, G. L. / M. Nixon and J. B. Messenger, eds., 1977: Classification of Recent Cephalopods. The Biology of Cephalopods: Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, 38. 575-579.
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