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(data as of June 2002)

Nominal Genus-Level Taxa

Hectocotylus Cuvier, 1829:147.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Unresolved]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Hectocotylus octopodis Cuvier, 1829; species first mentioned [in Vermes]

Ocythoe Rafinesque, 1814:29.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid genus [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 by monotypy

Parasira Steenstrup, 1861:333.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE SPECIES. -- Octopus catenulata Ferussac, 1834 In Ferussac and D'Orbigny, 1834-1848 by monotypy

Nominal Species-Level Taxa (As Introduced Binomial)

Ocythoe antiquorum Leach, 1817b:139.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Argonauta argo Linne, 1758 [fide Robson (1932:182)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Holotype 1993015 [fide Lipinski et al. (2000:109)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean

Octopus carenae Verany, 1839:92, pl 2.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; MHNN? [other taxa there fide G.L. Voss (pers. comm.)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean

Octopus catenulata Ferussac, 1834
In Ferussac and D'Orbigny, 1834-1848:87, Poulpe pls 6bis, 6ter
[fide Tillier and Boucher-Rodoni (1994:101); authorship and taxon dated from plate]

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MNHN Type; specimen not extant [fide Lu et al. (1995:313)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean coasts [fide Lu et al. (1995:313)]

Ocythoe cranchii Leach, 1817a:295, pl 12.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Argonauta hians Lightfoot, 1786 [fide Robson (1932:192)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- BMNH Holoype (1 saved of several) [fide Leach (1817a:295)]; not found [fide Lipinski et al. (2000:114)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Gulf of Guinea

Tremoctopus doderleini Ortmann, 1888:642, pl 20.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Berry (1912:385)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MZUS Holotype [fide Johnson (1977:236)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Tokyo Bay, Japan

Tremoctopus hirondellei Joubin, 1895:10, pl 1 figs 1-2, pl 2 figs 1-3.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Argonauta or Ocythoe [fide Thomas (1977:386)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MOM Holotype [station 151] [fide Belloc (1950:3)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- 44°28'56"N, 46°48'15"W (Atlantic Ocean)

Ocythoe mezzaro Risso, 1854:49, pl 23 figs 1-2.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Tremoctopus sp. [fide Unresolved]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Areas of fine sand [?Nice]

Octopus pictus Blainville, 1828 In 1828-1830:8, pl 1 fig 3.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Mediterranean Sea

Ocythoe punctata Say, 1819:107.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Argonauta sp. [fide Robson (1929:215)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; ANSP? Holotype [not traced by Spamer and Bogan (1992)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Atlantic Ocean near the North American coast (from stomach of dolphin)

Octopus (Ocythoe) raricyathus Blainville, 1826:194.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Undetermined [Argonauta?]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- MNHN Holotype; specimen not extant [fide Lu et al. (1995:323)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814:29.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Valid species [fide Robson (1932:201)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Type eaten by Rafinesque [fide Rafinesque (1840:64)]
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated [Sicily?]

Ocythoe velata Risso, 1854:pl 24.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. -- Tremoctopus violaceus Chiaie, 1830 In 1823-1831 [fide Adam (1942:21)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; MHNN?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Not designated

Octopus violaceus Risso, 1854:73, pl 32.

CURRENT SYSTEMATIC STATUS. --?Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814 [fide Adam (1942:30)]
TYPE REPOSITORY. -- Unresolved; MHNN?
TYPE LOCALITY. -- Gravel or rocky areas [?Nice]

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Type Repositories

ANSP-Academy of Natural Sciences, 19th & The Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103, U.S.A. [Voss (1962); Spamer and Bogan (1992)]

BMNH-The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England (formerly British Museum (Natural History)). [For type catalog see Lipinski et al. (2000)]

MHNN-Museum d'Histoire Naturelle (Musee Barla), 60 bis blvd Risso, 06300 Nice, France.

MNHN-Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire Biologie Invertebres Marins et Malacologie, 55, rue de Buffon, 75005 Paris 05, France. [For type catalog see Lu et al. (1995)]

MOM- Musée Océanographique, Avenue Saint-Martin, Monaco-Ville, MC 98000, Monaco. [For type catalog see Belloc (1950)]

MZUS-Musée Zoologique, Universite Louis Pasteur & de la Ville de Strasbourg, 29 Boulevard de la Victoire, F67000 Strasbourg, FRANCE. [See Johnson (1977) for Ortmann types]

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