Benthoctopus

Benthoctopus
	Benthoctopus sp. and clam on the Davidson Seamount at 1,461 m depth
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Family:	Octopodidae
Subfamily:	Bathypolypodinae
Genus:	Benthoctopus; Grimpe, 1921
Species
	Around 25, see text.

Benthoctopus is a genus of octopuses comprising around 25 species of the most species-rich genus of the deep-sea subfamily Bathypolypodinae. They seem to occur worldwide, and most specimens have been brought up from depths of 200-3,000 m.^[1]

Species

*Benthoctopus* sp. on DSV *Alvin*'s port manipulator arm

New species are being described at a rate of approximately 1-2 per year on average.

B. abruptus
B. berryi
B. canthylus
B. clyderoperi
B. ergasticus
B. eureka (= B. hyadesi; tentatively placed here^[1])
B. fuscus (nomen dubium^[1])
B. hokkaidensis
B. januarii – January octopus
B. karubar
B. leioderma – smoothskin octopus
B. levis
B. longibrachus
B. lothei (nomen dubium)
B. macrophallus
B. magellanicus (nomen dubium; tentatively placed here^[1])
B. oregonae
B. oregonensis
B piscatorum
B. profundorum
B. pseudonymus (nomen dubium^[1])
B. rigbyae^[2]
B. robustus
B. sibiricus
B. tangaroa
B. tegginmathae
Benthoctopus thielei
B. yaquinae
Benthoctopus sp. A "Villarroel et al. 2001"^[1]
Benthoctopus sp. B "Villarroel et al. 2001"^[1]
Benthoctopus cf. januarii "Nesis 1973" (may be B. januarii or B. longibrachus)^[1]

Footnotes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ibáñez et al. (2006)
^ Michael Vecchione, Louise Allcock, Uwe Piatkowski, Jan Strugnell (2009). "Benthoctopus rigbyae, n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula". Malacologia. 15 (1): 13–28. doi:10.4002/040.051.0102.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

References

Ibáñez, Christian M.; Sepúlveda, Roger D. & Chong, Javier (2006): A new species of Benthoctopus Grimpe, 1921 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 119(3): 355–364. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X(2006)119[355:ANSOBG]2.0.CO;2 HTML abstract

External links

CephBase: Benthoctopus

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[ibanezetal2006-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Ibáñez et al. (2006)

[Malacologia-2] Michael Vecchione, Louise Allcock, Uwe Piatkowski, Jan Strugnell (2009). "Benthoctopus rigbyae, n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula". Malacologia. 15 (1): 13–28. doi:10.4002/040.051.0102.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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