Benthoctopus
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Benthoctopus sp. and clam on the Davidson Seamount at 1,461 m depth | |
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Genus: | Benthoctopus Grimpe, 1921
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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
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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.
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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