MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009) 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.
page(s): 18 [details]
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
new combination reference
Gleadall I.G., Guerrero-Kommritz J., Hochberg F.G. & Laptikhovsky V.V. (2010) The inkless octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the Southwest Atlantic. <i>Zoological Science</i> 27:528-553. [details]
status source
Gleadall, I.G. (2013). A molecular sequence proxy for <em>Muusoctopus januarii</em> and calibration of recent divergence among a group of mesobenthic octopuses. <em>Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology.</em> 447: 106–122. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality