Bathypolypus
Encyclopedia
Bathypolypus is a genus
of octopus
es in the family
Octopodidae
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Synonyms:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of octopus
Octopus
The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms...
es in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Octopodidae
Octopodidae
Octopodidae is the family containing the majority of known octopus species.-Subfamilies and species:*Basal genus Vulcanoctopus*Genus incertae sedis Histoctopus*Subfamily Bathypolypodinae**Genus Bathypolypus**Genus Benthoctopus...
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Species
Species in the genus Bathypolypus include:- Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847)
- Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus – Spoonarm Octopus (Prosch, 1847)
- Bathypolypus arcticus proschi Muus, 1962
- Bathypolypus faeroensis (Russell, 1909)
- Bathypolypus rubrostictus Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008
- Bathypolypus sponsalis – Globose Octopus (Fischer & Fischer, 1892)
- Bathypolypus valdiviaeBathypolypus valdiviaeBathypolypus valdiviae, common name the Boxer Octopus, is a species of octopus in the Octopodidae family....
– (Boxer Octopus) (Thiele in Chun, 1915)
Synonyms:
- Bathypolypus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920) is a synonym for Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)
External links
- Wood, J.B. 2000. Ph.D. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.