Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Octopus roosevelti Stuart, 1941 (F.G. Hochberg, pers. comm., 1996, in Kaiser, 1997); USNM: 515224 (Holotype of Octopus roosevelti Stuart, type locality: Galapagos), 515225 (Paratype of Octopus roosevelti), 577585 (as O. roosevelti)

Taxon origin: Native

Distribution: Tropical eastern Pacific, California to Mexico, Galapagos

• Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
• Stuart, H.G. (1941) A new Cephalopod mollusk collected on the Presidential Cruise of 1938. Smithsonian Institution Miscellaneous Collection 99(11): 1-6.
• Constant, P. (2007) Marine Life of the Galapagos. The Diver's guide to Fishes, Whales, Dolphins and marine Invertebrates, 307 pp.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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