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| Pinnoctopus cordiformis | |
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| Subfamily: | Octopodinae |
| Genus: | Pinnoctopus d'Orbigny, 1845 in 1845-1847 |
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Pinnoctopus is a genus of octopuses in the family Octopodidae. It is of doubtful validity.
Species
- Pinnoctopus cordiformis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832. nomen dubium
- Pinnoctopus kermadecensis (Berry, 1914)
Taxonomic note
ITIS treats Pinnoctopus as a synonym of Octopus Cuvier, 1797. While the World Register of Marine Species treats it as a nomen dubium, has P. cordiformis as a species of doubtful validity and assigns P. kermadecensis to Octopus.[1]
References
- ^ Bieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2017). "Pinnoctopus d'Orbigny, 1845". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
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