Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda > Suborder Incirrata > Superfamily Argonautoidea > Family Ocythoidae > Genus Ocythoe

Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ocythoe*	Rafinesque, 1814	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hectocotylus argonautae*	Cuvier, 1829	synonym
*Octopus carenae*	Vérany, 1839	synonym
*Octopus catenulatus*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Octopus reticularis*	Petagna [in Monticelli], 1828	synonym
*Octopus veranyi*	R. Wagner, 1828	synonym
*Tremoctopus doderleini*	Ortmann, 1888	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Football octopus; tuberculate octopus; tuberculate pelagic octopus sources: Volvenko, I. V.; Orlov, A. M.; Gebruk, A. V.; Katugin, O. N.; Ogorodnikova, A. A.; Vinogradov, G. M.; Maznikova, O. A. (2019). Checklist of the trawl macrofauna from the North Pacific and adjacent seas with information about fishery importance, potential product yield, and price range, supplement to: Volvenko, Igor V; Orlov, Alexei M; Gebruk, Andrey V; Katugin, Oleg N; Ogorodnikova, Alla A; Vinogradov, Georgy M; Maznikova, Olga A (in prep.): Trawl macrofauna of the Far-Eastern Seas and North Pacific: proportion of commercial species, potential product yield, and price rang. Earth System Science Data. PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science.;van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).;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.

German: Höckeriger Seepolyp; Schmarotzerkrake 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.

Greek: Ανισοπλόκαμο χταπόδι sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

Russian: Оцитое бугорчатый

Literature

original description	Rafinesque, C.S. (1814). Précis des découvertes et travaux somiologiques de Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz entre 1800 et 1814; ou choix raisonné de ses principales découvertes en zoologie et en botanique, pour servir d'introduction à ses ouvrages futurs. [Summary of the discoveries and somiological works of Mr. C.S. Rafinesque-Schmaltz between 1800 and 1814; or reasoned selection of his principal discoveries in zoology and botany, to serve as an introduction to his future works.]. Palerme. :1-55.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Finn J.K. (2014). Family Ocythoidea. pp. 237-239, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
additional source	Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Honma, Y.; Ushiki, T.; Takeda, M.; Nakamura, Y. (2007). Notes on the Histology of Ovarian Eggs of the Epipelagic Octopus Ocythoe tuberculata Caught off Naoetsu Port, Niigata Prefecture, Sea of Japan — Studies on Gonad Maturity in Some Marine Invertebrates－XIII. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 65 (4): 345-353.
additional source	Okutani, T. ; Osuga, K. (1986). A Peculiar Nesting Behavior of Ocythoe tuberculata in the Test of a Gigantic Salp, Tethys vagina. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology).* 45(1): 67-69.
additional source	Braid, H.E. & Bolstad, K.S.R. (2019). Cephalopod biodiversity of the Kermadec Islands; implications for conservation and some future taxonomic priorities. Invertebrate Systematics. 33: 402-425.
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ocythoe tuberculata Rafinesque, 1814. 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:140610