Bathypolypus
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Bathypolypus is a genus of octopuses in the family Octopodidae.
Species
Species in the genus Bathypolypus include:
- B. arcticus (Prosch, 1847)
- B. a. arcticus – spoonarm octopus (Prosch, 1847)
- B. a. proschi Muus, 1962
- B. faeroensis (Russell, 1909)
- B. rubrostictus Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008[2]
- B. sponsalis – globose octopus (Fischer & Fischer, 1892)
- B. valdiviae – boxer octopus (Thiele in Chun, 1915)
Synonyms:
- Bathypolypus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920) is a synonym for Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)[3]
References
- ^ Grimpe (1921). Zool. Anz. 52: 299.
- ^ Kaneko, N. & Kubodera, T. (2008). "Two new species of pygmy octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from deep water off the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan." Molluscan Research 28(3): 145–157.
- ^ Jorgensen E. M., Strugnell J. M. & Allcock A. L. (2010). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus of octopus, Sasakiopus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae), from the Bering Sea, with a redescription of Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 57-66. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp046.
External links
- CephBase: Bathypolypus
- "Bathypolypus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
- Wood, J.B. 2000. Template:PDFlink Ph.D. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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