Bathypolypus valdiviae: Difference between revisions

'''''Bathypolypus valdiviae''''', common name the '''boxer octopus'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/B/Bathypolypus_valdiviae/ |title=Bathypolypus valdiviae (Boxer Octopus) |publisher=Zipcodezoo.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-29 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009013741/http://zipcodezoo.com/Animals/B/Bathypolypus_valdiviae/ |archivedate=2012-10-09 |df= }}</ref> or '''Valdivia bathyal octopus''',<ref name = SLB>{{cite web | url = http://www.sealifebase.org/summary/Bathypolypus-valdiviae.html | title = Bathypolypus valdiviae (Thiele, 1915) | accessdate = 2 April 2017 | publisher = [[Sea Life Base]] | editor1 = M.L.D. Palomares | editor2 = D. Pauly | year = 2017}}</ref> is a species of [[octopus]] in the [[Octopodidae]] family.<ref name = WoRMS/> It is endemic to the south Atlantic off southern Africa below a depth of 500m where it was one of the most commonly sampled cephalopods, taken mainly from the sea bed.<ref name = Roeleveld>{{cite journal | author1 = M. A. C. Roeleveld | author2 = M. R. Lipiński | author3 = C. J. Augustyn | author4 = B. A. Stewart | year = 1992 | title = The distribution and abundance of cephalopods on the continental slope of the eastern South Atlantic | doi = 10.2989/02577619209504738 | journal = South African Journal of Marine Science | volume = 12 | issue = 1 | pages = 739-752}}</ref> The specific name commemorates the [[SS Valdivia (1886)|SS Valdivia]] the steamship used on the Valdivia Expedition of 1898-1899 and which was led by [[Carl Chun]].<ref name = BHL>{{cite web | url = http://blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2012/06/book-of-week-valdivia-expedition.html | title = Book of the Week: The Valdivia Expedition | accessdate = 2 April 2017 | publisher = [[Biodiversity Heritage Library]] | year = 2012 | author = Jacqueline Ford}}</ref>