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

Haliphron atlanticus Steenstrup, 1861

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Haliphron*	Steenstrup, 1859	accepted genus name
*Alloposina*	Grimpe, 1922	synonym
*Alloposus*	A. E. Verrill, 1880	synonym
*Heptapus*	Joubin, 1929	synonym

Species group names

*Alloposus hardyi*	G. C. Robson, 1930	synonym
*Alloposus mollis*	A. E. Verrill, 1880	synonym
*Alloposus pacificus*	Ijima, 1902	synonym
*Bolitaena microcotyla*	Steenstrup, 1859 sensu Hoyle, 1904	synonym
*Heptapus danai*	Joubin, 1929	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Chinese: Yì-Fū-Xiāo sources: Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.

English: Seven-arm 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.

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

Russian: Семирукий осьминог; халифрон атлантический

Literature

original description	Steenstrup, J. (1861). Forevisning af en afdeling af Museets seneste Forogelser af Blaeksprutteklassen med bemaerkninger om de enkelte arter. Videnskabelige Meddekekser fra deb Naturhistoriske Forening i Kjobenhavn. 1860:332-333.
basis of record	Finn J.K. (2014). Family Alloposidae. pp. 225-228, 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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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	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.
identification resource	Lu, C.C. & Chung, W.S. (2017). Guide to the cephalopods of Taiwan. National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan, 560 pp. ISBN 978-986-05-2569-4.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Haliphron atlanticus Steenstrup, 1861. 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:341781