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. 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.

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Ibáñez et al. (2006)
  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.

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