Registration Number:  F 24494

Category:  Natural Sciences

Scientific Group:  Invertebrate Zoology

Discipline:  Invertebrates

Type of Item:  Specimen

Scientific Name: Octopus kaurna

Phylum: Mollusca - (gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons)

Class: Cephalopoda

Order: Octopoda

Family: Octopodidae

Genus: Octopus

Species: kaurna

Author: Stranks, 1990

Type Status:  Holotype

Preservation:  70% ethanol

Country:  Australia

State:  Victoria

Precise Location:  Hobsons bay

Centroid Latitude:  -37.87

Centroid Longitude:  144.93