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WoRMS taxon details

Cirrata

AphiaID

11732 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11732)

Classification

Authority

Grimpe, 1916

Status

accepted

Rank

Suborder

Parent

Octopoda

Direct children (2)

Ordering

Alphabetically
By status

Children Display

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Superfamily Cirroteuthoidea W. Keferstein, 1866
Superfamily Opisthoteuthoidea A. E. Verrill, 1896

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Grimpe, G. (1916). Chunioteuthis - Eine neue Cephalopodengattung. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 46(12): 349–359., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29985857
page(s): 353 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cirrata. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11732 on 2025-04-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2009-02-04 10:16:53Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-08-16 12:45:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Grimpe, G. (1916). Chunioteuthis - Eine neue Cephalopodengattung. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 46(12): 349–359., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29985857
page(s): 353 [details]

basis of record Verhoeff, T. J. (2023). The molecular phylogeny of cirrate octopods (Cephalopoda: Octopoda: Cirrata) using COI and 16S sequences. Folia Malacologica. 31(4): 175–196., available online at https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.031.026 [details]

Other

additional source Piertney S.B., Hudelot C., Hochberg F.G. & Collins M.A. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships among cirrate octopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) resolved using mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27(2): 348-353. [details]

additional source Collins M.A. & Villanueva R. (2006) Taxonomy, ecology and behaviour of the cirrate octopods. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 44: 277-322. [details]