Muusoctopus
| Muusoctopus | |
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| File:Benthoctopus levis.jpg | |
| Muusoctopus levis | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Enteroctopodidae |
| Genus: | Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004[1] |
| Type species | |
| Octopus januarii Hoyle, 1885
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Muusoctopus is a cosmopolitan genus of deep-sea octopus from the family Enteroctopodidae. These are small to medium-sized octopuses which lack an ink sac.[2] Recent work has suggested that these octopuses originated in the North Atlantic and subsequently moved into the North Pacific while the species in the Southern Hemisphere are descended from multiple invasions from northern oceans.[3]
Reproductive
These octopus species are known to spawn a single batch of eggs instead of producing batches of them over time. As much as these octopuses may release eggs simultaneously or in batches in an extremely short period, they are mostly not prolific spawners.
Species
[edit | edit source]These species are currently classified as members of the genus Muusoctopus:[1]
- Muusoctopus abruptus (Sasaki, 1920)
- Muusoctopus aegir A. V. Golikov, Gudmundsson & Sabirov, 2023
- Muusoctopus berryi (Robson, 1924)
- Muusoctopus bizikovi Gleadall, Guerrero-Kommritz, Hochberg & Laptikhovsky, 2010
- Muusoctopus canthylus (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Muusoctopus clyderoperi (O'Shea, 1999)
- Muusoctopus eicomar (Vega, 2009)
- Muusoctopus eureka (Robson, 1929)
- Muusoctopus fuscus (Taki, 1964)
- Muusoctopus hokkaidensis (Berry, 1921)
- Muusoctopus januarii (Hoyle, 1885)
- Muusoctopus johnsonianus (Allcock, Strugnell, Ruggiero & Collins, 2006)
- Muusoctopus karubar (Norman, Hochberg & Lu, 1997)
- Muusoctopus leioderma (Berry, 1911)
- Muusoctopus levis (Hoyle, 1885)
- Muusoctopus longibrachus (Ibáñez, Sepúlveda & Chong, 2006)
- Muusoctopus oregonae (Toll, 1981)
- Muusoctopus oregonensis (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Muusoctopus profundorum (Robson, 1932)
- Muusoctopus pseudonymus (Grimpe, 1922)
- Muusoctopus rigbyae (Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
- Muusoctopus robustus (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Muusoctopus sibiricus (Loyning, 1930)
- Muusoctopus tangaroa (O'Shea, 1999)
- Muusoctopus tegginmathae (O'Shea, 1999)
- Muusoctopus thielei (Robson, 1932)
- Muusoctopus violescens (Taki, 1964)
- Muusoctopus yaquinae (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
References
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4. Laptikhovsky, V. (2013). Reproductive strategy of deep-sea and Antarctic octopods of the genera Graneledone, Adelieledone and Muusoctopus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda). Aquatic Biology, 18(1), 21-29.Lua error in Module:Taxonbar at line 165: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
