MolluscaBase taxon details
original description
(of Octopus levis Hoyle, 1885) Hoyle, W.E. (1885). Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H.M.S. Challenger, I: The Octopoda. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> series 5, 15:222-236., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15821176
page(s): 229 [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
Ibáñez, C.M., Pardo-Gandarillas, M.C., Peña, F., Gleadall, I.G., Poulin, E. & Sellanes, J. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of <em>Muusoctopus</em> (Cephalopoda: Enteroctopodidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 45: 494-503. [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