Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda > Suborder Incirrata > Superfamily Octopodoidea > Family Octopodidae > Genus Octopus

Octopus americanus Froriep, 1806

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Octopus*	Cuvier, 1798	accepted genus name
*Polypus*	Leach, 1817	synonym

Literature

original description	Froriep, L. F. von. (1806). Duméril's analytische Zoologie. Weimar. vi + 356 pp.
additional source	Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1802-1805). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques : animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc / Ouvrage faisant suite aux Œuvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigée par C.S. Sonnini. Tome 101 [Mollusques 1], 1802; tome 102 [Mollusques 2], 1802; tome 103 [Mollusques 3], 1802; tome 104 [Mollusques 4], 1802; tome 105 [Mollusques 5], 1805; tome 106 [Mollusques 6], 1806.
additional source	Guppy, R. J. L. (1879). First sketch of a marine invertebrate fauna of the Gulf of Paria and its neighbourhood. Journal of Conchology. 2: 151-172.
additional source	Guppy, R. J. L. (1877). First sketch of a marine invertebrate fauna of the Gulf of Paria and its neighbourhood. Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad. 2(3): 134-157.
additional source	Voss, G. L. & Toll, R. B. (1998). The systematics and nomenclatural status of the Octopodinae described from the western Atlantic Ocean. Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology,. 586(2): 457-474.
additional source	Guppy, R. J. L. (1895). The Molluska of the Gulf of Paria. Proceedings of the Victoria Institute of Trinidad. Pt. 2: 116-152.
status source	González-Gómez, R.; Avendaño, O.; De Los Angeles Barriga-Sosa, I.; Bastos, P.; Caamal-Monsreal, C.; Castillo-Estrada, G.; Cedillo-Robles, C.; Daw, A.; Díaz-Santana-Iturrios, M.; Galindo-Cortes, G.; Guerrero-Kommritz, J.; Haimovici, M.; Ibáñez, C. M.; De Lourdes Jiménez-Badillo, M.; Larson, P.; Leite, T.; Lima, F. D.; Markaida, U.; Meiners-Mandujano, C.; Morillo-Velarde, P. S.; Ortiz, N.; Pardo-Gandarillas, M. C.; Pliego-Cárdenas, R.; Ré, M. E.; Siegel, B.; Urbano, B.; Vidal, E. A. G.; Gleadall, I. G. (2024). Biodiversity of octopuses in the Americas. Marine Biology. 171: 189: 1-41.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Octopus americanus Froriep, 1806. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:749548