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Grimpoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885)

157020 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157020)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Cephalopoda
  5. Coleoidea
  6. Octopodiformes
  7. Octopoda
  8. Cirrata
  9. Opisthoteuthoidea
  10. Grimpoteuthidae
  11. Grimpoteuthis
  12. Grimpoteuthis megaptera
accepted
Species
Grimpoteuthis G. C. Robson, 1932
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444
page(s): 405 [details] 
Type locality contained in North West Atlantic  
type locality contained in North West Atlantic [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Grimpoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157020 on 2026-09-20
NARMS (2026). Grimpoteuthis megaptera (A. E. Verrill, 1885). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157020 on 2026-09-20
Date
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2005-05-20 11:54:45Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z
changed
Rosenberg, Gary
2011-03-16 19:15:22Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2018-02-07 15:28:10Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2023-06-18 00:21:19Z
changed
Auffenberg, Kurt

original description (of ) Verrill, A. E. (1885). Third catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 6: 395-452., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7477444
page(s): 405 [details] 

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 Collins, M. A. & Villanueva, R. (2006). Taxonomy, ecology and behaviour of the cirrate octopods. <em>Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review.</em> 44: 277-322., available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420006391.ch6
page(s): 299 [details] 

additional source Hochberg F.G., Norman M.D. & Finn J.K. (2014). Family Opisthoteuthidae. pp. 248-261, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date</i>. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
page(s): 259 [details] 
 
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