''Bathypolypus'' is a

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octopus An octopus (: octopuses or octopodes) 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, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like oth ...

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Bathypolypodidae.

Species

Species in the

''Bathypolypus'' include: * '' Bathypolypus arcticus'' ( Prosch, 1847) ** ''

Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus ''Bathypolypus'' is a genus of octopuses in the monotypic family Bathypolypodidae. Species Species in the genus ''Bathypolypus'' include: * '' Bathypolypus arcticus'' ( Prosch, 1847) ** '' Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus'' – spoonarm octopu ...

'' – spoonarm octopus (Prosch, 1847) ** ''

Bathypolypus arcticus proschi ''Bathypolypus'' is a genus of octopuses in the monotypic family Bathypolypodidae. Species Species in the genus ''Bathypolypus'' include: * '' Bathypolypus arcticus'' ( Prosch, 1847) ** ''Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus'' – spoonarm octopus ...

'' Muus, 1962 * ''

Bathypolypus rubrostictus ''Bathypolypus rubrostictus'' is a species of octopus in the family Bathypolypodidae. Only one specimen, a male, has been found. Distribution ''Bathypolypus rubrostictus'' was initially identified from a specimen off the coast of the Ryukyu Isl ...

'' Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008 * ''

Bathypolypus sponsalis ''Bathypolypus sponsalis'', commonly called the globose octopus, is a deep sea cephalopod that can be found in both the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. It possesses many morphological traits adapted to a deep sea environment, in ...

'' – globose octopus (

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Bathypolypus valdiviae ''Bathypolypus valdiviae'', common name the boxer octopus or Valdivia bathyal octopus, is a species of octopus in the family Bathypolypodidae. It is endemic to the south Atlantic off southern Africa below a depth of where it was one of the most ...

'' – boxer octopus ( Thiele in Chun, 1915) * ''Bathypolypus bairdii -'' Baird's Octopus Verrill, 1873 * ''Bathypolypus ergasticus'' P. Fischer & H. Fischer, 1892 * ''Bathypolypus pugniger'' Muus, 2002 * ''Bathypolypus rubrostictus'' Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008 Synonyms: * ''Bathypolypus salebrosus'' (Sasaki, 1920) is a synonym for '' Sasakiopus salebrosus'' (Sasaki, 1920)Jorgensen E. M., Strugnell J. M. & Allcock A. L. (2010). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus of octopus, ''Sasakiopus'' (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae), from the Bering Sea, with a redescription of ''Sasakiopus salebrosus'' (Sasaki, 1920)". ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' 76(1): 57-66. . * ''Bathypolypus faeroensis'' (Frederick Stratten Russel, Russell) is a synonym for '' Bathypolypus arcticus'' ( Prosch, 1847) (

Fabricius Fabricius (, ) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *people from the Ancient Roman Fabricia gens, gens Fabricia: **Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, the first of the Fabricii to move to Rome * Johann Goldsmid (1587–1616), known by his ...

, 1777)

References

External links

* * Wood, J.B. 2000. Ph.D. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Cephalopod genera Taxa named by Georg Grimpe Octopuses {{octopus-stub