Benthoctopus Grimpe 1921

• Main Authors: Strugnell, Jan, Voight, Janet R., Collins, Patrick C., Allcock, A. Louise
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Cephalopoda; Octopoda; Octopodidae; Benthoctopus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5334596; https://zenodo.org/record/5334596

Benthoctopus Grimpe Emended diagnosis. Deepwater incirrate octopodids. Arms 1.5–4 times ML. Suckers biserial. Ligula slightly to moderately excavated with indistinct midrib, smooth or bearing low, often indistinct rugae, never laminate. Crop present, usually with diverticulum. Ink sac absent, anal flaps absent. Radula with multicuspid rachidian. Type species: Octopus piscatorum Verrill, 1879. By original designation. Remarks . Octopus piscatorum was designated a junior synonym of Bathypolypus bairdii by Muus (2002) and the genus Benthoctopus is currently invalid. We continue to use the name as an interim measure because this large group of rarely acquired and potentially highly diverse species requires further attention before nomenclatural acts are made, to ensure that such acts provide nomenclatural stability rather than create additional uncertainty. : Published as part of Strugnell, Jan, Voight, Janet R., Collins, Patrick C. & Allcock, A. Louise, 2009, Molecular phylogenetic analysis of a known and a new hydrothermal vent octopod: their relationships with the genus Benthoctopus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae), pp. 442-459 in Zootaxa 2096 (1) on page 446, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.27, http://zenodo.org/record/5321990 : {"references": ["Verrill, A. E. (1879) Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the eastern coast of North America, No. 7. Brief contributions to Zoology from the Museum of Yale College No. 44. American Journal of Science and Arts, Series 3. 18, 468 - 470.", "Muus, B. J. (2002) The Bathypolypus-Benthoctopus problem of the North Atlantic (Octopodidae, Cephalopoda). Malacologia, 44, 175 - 222."]}