Benthoctopus
| Benthoctopus | |
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| 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 | |
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Around 25, see text. | |
Benthoctopus is a genus of octopuses comprising around 25 species. It is thus 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
Unidentified Benthoctopus species and orange-stalked crinoid on the Davidson Seamount at 2,422 m depth
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.
- Benthoctopus abruptus
- Benthoctopus berryi
- Benthoctopus canthylus
- Benthoctopus clyderoperi
- Benthoctopus ergasticus
- Benthoctopus eureka (= B. hyadesi; tentatively placed here[1])
- Benthoctopus fuscus (nomen dubium[1])
- Benthoctopus hokkaidensis
- Benthoctopus januarii – January octopus
- Benthoctopus karubar
- Benthoctopus leioderma – smoothskin octopus
- Benthoctopus levis
- Benthoctopus longibrachus
- Benthoctopus lothei (nomen dubium)
- Benthoctopus macrophallus
- Benthoctopus magellanicus (nomen dubium; tentatively placed here[1])
- Benthoctopus oregonae
- Benthoctopus oregonensis
- Benthoctopus piscatorum
- Benthoctopus profundorum
- Benthoctopus pseudonymus (nomen dubium[1])
- Benthoctopus rigbyae[2]
- Benthoctopus robustus
- Benthoctopus sibiricus
- Benthoctopus tangaroa
- Benthoctopus tegginmathae
- Benthoctopus thielei
- Benthoctopus 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
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