Grimpoteuthis abyssicola

Grimpoteuthis abyssicola is a species of small deep-sea octopus known from a single female specimen. The specimen was found in the Tasman Sea off New Zealand, between 3,154 and 3,180 meters deep.[3] More specifically, the octopus was found in the Lord Howe Rise.[2]

Grimpoteuthis abyssicola
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Opisthoteuthidae
Genus: Grimpoteuthis
Species:
G. abyssicola
Binomial name
Grimpoteuthis abyssicola
O'Shea, 1999 [2]

Its mantle is about 75 millimeters long, while its total body reaches 305 millimeters long.[4] G. abyssicola's shell is shaped like a saddle. This octopus is different from other members of Grimpoteuthis because of how many suckers it has, and how its shell is shaped.[3] The species is also disctintive in its number of suckers. It has first 6-8 average sized suckers, then 30-35 enlarged, followed lastly by 30-35 rapidly decreasing in size. [5]

While the population of G. abyssicola is unknown, it's probably not threatened, since it lives so deep in the ocean. G. abyssicola and all members of Grimpoteuthis may be demersal.[1] Present findings of the G. abyssicola are very brief and do not give much information, so further investigations of habitats have been inspired to evaluate the importance of them.[6]

References
  1. Lyons, G; Allcock, L (2014). "Grimpoteuthis abyssicola". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  2. Bouchet, Philippe; van der Land, Jacob. "Grimpoteuthis abyssicola". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  3. O'Shea, Steve; Young, Richard. "Grimpoteuthis abyssicola". Tree of Life Web Project. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  4. Jereb, Patrizia; Roper, Clyde F.E.; Norman, Mark D.; Finn, Julian K., eds. (2016). Cephalopods of the World: an Annotated and Illustrated Catalog of Cephalopods Known to Date Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids (PDF). Rome. p. 281. ISBN 978-92-5-107989-8. Retrieved 26 April 2018.
  5. "Grimpoteuthis Abyssicola O'Shea 1999." Grimpoteuthis Abyssicola, tolweb.org/Grimpoteuthis_abyssicola/20117.
  6. Piatkowski, Uwe; Diekmann, Rabea (2005). "A short note on the cephalopods sampled in the Angola Basin during the DIVA-1 expedition". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 5: 227–230. doi:10.1016/j.ode.2004.11.007.
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