Pinnoctopus
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Pinnoctopus cordiformis | |
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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
- ^ Philippe Bouchet, ed. (2017). "Pinnoctopus d'Orbigny, 1845". MolluscaBase. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
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