MolluscaBase - Benthoctopus eureka (G. C. Robson, 1929)

WoRMS name details

Benthoctopus eureka (G. C. Robson, 1929)

AphiaID

341915 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341915)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Muusoctopus eureka (G. C. Robson, 1929)

Rank

Species

Parent

Benthoctopus Grimpe, 1921 accepted as Bathypolypus Grimpe, 1921

Original name

Enteroctopus eureka G. C. Robson, 1929

Environment

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

Original description

(of Enteroctopus eureka G. C. Robson, 1929) Robson, G. C. (1929). A monograph of the recent Cephalopoda based on the collections in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Octopodinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp. 1-236, pls 1-7. [published 27 July 1929]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48282680
page(s): 179 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Benthoctopus eureka (G. C. Robson, 1929). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341915 on 2025-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-27 18:55:09Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-09-25 10:52:37Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-02-07 15:28:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-08-27 09:38:30Z

changed

Vos, Chris

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Enteroctopus eureka G. C. Robson, 1929) Robson, G. C. (1929). A monograph of the recent Cephalopoda based on the collections in the British Museum (Natural History). Part I. Octopodinae. British Museum (Natural History), London. Pp. 1-236, pls 1-7. [published 27 July 1929]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48282680
page(s): 179 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Vecchione, M., Allcock, L., Piatkowski, U. & Strugnell, J. (2009). <em>Benthoctopus rigbyae</em>, n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula. <em>Malacologia.</em> 51(1): 13-28. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Habitat neritic [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To ITIS