''Cirroctopus'' is a genus of four species of octopuses within the monotypic family

Cirroctopodidae ''Cirroctopus'' is a genus of four species of octopuses within the monotypic family Cirroctopodidae. Members of this genus have larger fins than other cirrate Cirrina or Cirrata is a suborder and one of the two main divisions of octopuses. Ci ...

. Members of this genus have larger fins than other

cirrate Cirrina or Cirrata is a suborder and one of the two main divisions of octopuses. Cirrate octopuses have a small, internal shell and two fins on their head, while their sister suborder Incirrina has neither. The fins of cirrate octopods are asso ...

octopuses, and tend to be more muscular.Vecchione, Michael and Richard E. Young. 2016. Cirroctopodidae Collins and Villanueva 2006. Cirroctopus Naef, 1923. Version 27 February 2016 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Cirroctopus/20103/2016.02.27 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ They are found in the southern hemisphere, where they live at depths of over 300m.

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Octopuses Taxa named by Adolf Naef {{octopus-stub