Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca

Cephalopoda Cuvier, 1795

Rank: Class
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Coleoidea Bather, 1888
Nautiloida Agassiz, 1847
Orthoceratia Teichert, 1967

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: inktvissen; koppotigen sources: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.;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

German: Cephalopoden; Kopffüßer sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: 頭足綱 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Russian: головоногие моллюски

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.
additional source	Stearns, R. E. C. (1907). Among the cephalopods. The Nautilus. 21(2): 23.
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/
taxonomy source	Hoffmann, R.; Howarth, M. K.; Fuchs, D.; Klug, C.; Korn, D. (2022). The higher taxonomic nomenclature of Devonian to Cretaceous ammonoids and Jurassic to Cretaceous ammonites including their authorship and publication. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 305(2): 187-197.