WoRMS taxon details
Muusoctopus rigbyae (Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
527162 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527162)
accepted
Species
Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009) Vecchione, M., Allcock, L., Piatkowski, U. & Strugnell, J. (2009). Benthoctopus rigbyae, n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula. Malacologia. 51(1): 13-28.
page(s): 18 [details]
page(s): 18 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muusoctopus rigbyae (Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527162 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009) Vecchione, M., Allcock, L., Piatkowski, U. & Strugnell, J. (2009). Benthoctopus rigbyae, n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula. Malacologia. 51(1): 13-28.
page(s): 18 [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. Zoological Science 27:528-553. [details]
page(s): 18 [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. Zoological Science 27:528-553. [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Gleadall, I.G. (2013). A molecular sequence proxy for Muusoctopus januarii and calibration of recent divergence among a group of mesobenthic octopuses. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology. 447: 106–122. [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]





To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Muusoctopus rigbyae)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Muusoctopus rigbyae)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)