WoRMS taxon details
Cephalopoda
- Subclass Coleoidea
- Subclass Endoceratia †
- Subclass Multiceratia †
- Subclass Nautiloida
- Subclass Orthoceratia †
- Subclass Plectronoceratia †
- Subclass Tarphyceratia †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
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., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6736775
page(s): 447-448 [details]
page(s): 447-448 [details]
Nomenclature The taxon Cephalopoda was first introduced by Cuvier (1795: 448), as a French vernacular name "les Céphalopodes",...
Nomenclature The taxon Cephalopoda was first introduced by Cuvier (1795: 448), as a French vernacular name "les Céphalopodes", alongside with "les Gastéropodes" and "les Acéphales", proposed as three orders of his "classe des Mollusques". [details]
WoRMS (2025). Cephalopoda. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=11707 on 2025-07-12
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Nomenclature
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., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6736775
page(s): 447-448 [details]
page(s): 447-448 [details]
Taxonomy
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/ [details]
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. <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.</em> 305(2): 187-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2022/1085 [details] Available for editors
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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. <em>Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen.</em> 305(2): 187-197., available online at https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2022/1085 [details] Available for editors
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context source (PeRMS)
Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. <em>Revista de Biologia Tropical.</em> 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Stearns, R. E. C. (1907). Among the cephalopods. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 21(2): 23., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3665969 [details]
[request]additional source Stearns, R. E. C. (1907). Among the cephalopods. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 21(2): 23., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3665969 [details]
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Nomenclature The taxon Cephalopoda was first introduced by Cuvier (1795: 448), as a French vernacular name "les Céphalopodes", alongside with "les Gastéropodes" and "les Acéphales", proposed as three orders of his "classe des Mollusques". [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | koppotigeninktvissen | [details] |
| English | squids, octopuses, nautilus, and ammonitescephalopods | [details] |
| German | KopffüßerCephalopoden | [details] |
| Japanese | 頭足綱 | [details] |
| Russian | головоногие моллюски | [details] |
| Swedish | bläckfiskar | [details] |
