Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca

Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1795

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Coleoidea Bather, 1888
Nautiloidea Agassiz, 1847

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: koppotigen sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: cephalopods; squids, octopuses, nautilus, and ammonites

English-United States: cephalopods sources: Charles Hussey

Swedish: bläckfiskar

Literature

original description	Cuvier, G. 1795. Second Mémoire sur l'organisation et les rapports des animaux à sang blanc, dans lequel on traite de la structure des Mollusques et de leur division en ordre, lu à la société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, le 11 prairial an troisième [30 May 1795]. Magazin Encyclopédique, ou Journal des Sciences, des Lettres et des Arts, 1795 [1. année] 2: 433-449.
taxonomy source	Young R.E. , Vecchione M. & Mangold K.M. (2012) Cephalopoda Cuvier 1797. Octopods, squids, nautiluses, etc.. Version 10 November 2012 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Cephalopoda/19386/2012.11.10 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

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Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Cephalopoda. In: Hayward, B.W., Cedhagen, T., Kaminski, M., Gross, O. (2014) World Foraminifera Database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11707