Enteroctopodidae is a small

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octopus An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefis ...

es. This family was formerly considered a subfamily of the family Octopodidae ''

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'' but this family has now been divided into a number of separate families with Enteroctopodidae as one of them.

Genera

These genera are included in the family Enteroctopodidae: * ''

Enteroctopus ''Enteroctopus'' is an octopus genus whose members are sometimes known as giant octopus. Etymology The generic name ''Enteroctopus'' was created by Alphonse Tremeau de Rochebrune and Jules François Mabille in 1887 and published in 1889, j ...

'' Rochebrune & Mabille, 1889 * ''

Muusoctopus ''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. Abstract. Recent work has suggested that these octopuses originated in the North Atlant ...

'' Gleadall, 2004 * ''

Sasakiopus ''Sasakiopus'' is a genus of octopus containing only one species, ''Sasakiopus salebrosus'', the rough octopus. It is part of the family Enteroctopodidae. Genetic analysis appeared to show that ''S. salebrosus'' is the sister taxon of the genera ...

'' Jorgensen, Strugnell & Allcock, 2010 * ''

Vulcanoctopus ''Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis'' is a small benthic octopus endemic to hydrothermal vents. It is the only known species of the genus ''Vulcanoctopus''. Habitat ''Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis'' lives along the East Pacific Rise, the border of ...

'' González & Guerra, 1998

References

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