Bathypolypus

Bathypolypus is a genus of octopuses in the monotypic family Bathypolypodidae. It has five described species.

Bathypolypus
Bathypolypus valdiviae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Family:	Bathypolypodidae Robson, 1929
Genus:	Bathypolypus Grimpe, 1921[1]
Type species
Octopus arcticus (Fabricius, 1777)
Species[2]
See text
Synonyms
Atlantoctopus Grimpe, 1921 Benthoctopus Grimpe, 1921

Species

Species in the genus Bathypolypus include:

• Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847)
  • Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus – spoonarm octopus (Prosch, 1847)
  • Bathypolypus arcticus proschi Muus, 1962
• Bathypolypus rubrostictus Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008[3]
• Bathypolypus sponsalis – globose octopus (Fischer & Fischer, 1892)
• Bathypolypus valdiviae – boxer octopus (Thiele in Chun, 1915)

Synonyms:

• Bathypolypus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920) is a synonym for Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)[4]
• Bathypolypus faeroensis (Frederick Stratten Russel|Russell) is a synonym for Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847) (Fabricius, 1777)

References

1. Grimpe, G. (1921). "Teuthologische mitteilungen. VII. Systematische übersicht der nordsee-cephalopoden". Zoologischer Anzeiger, 52(12/13), 299.
2. P. Bouchet; S. Gofas (2015). "Bathypolypus Grimpe, 1921". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
3. Kaneko, N. & Kubodera, T. (2008). "Two new species of pygmy octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from deep water off the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan." Molluscan Research 28(3): 145–157.
4. 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. doi:10.1093/mollus/eyp046.

External links

• CephBase: Bathypolypus
• "Bathypolypus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Wood, J.B. 2000. "The natural history of Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch), a deep-sea octopus" (PDF). (14.5 MiB) Ph.D. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.