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Octopodoidea is a
Octopodoidea is a superfamily
SUPERFAMILY is a database and search platform of structural and functional annotation for all proteins and genomes. It classifies amino acid sequences into known structural domains, especially into SCOP superfamilies. Domains are functional, str ...
of the suborder
Order ( la, ordo) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between family and class. In biological classification, the order is a taxonomic rank used in the classification of organisms and ...
Incirrata
Incirrata (or Incirrina) is a suborder of the order Octopoda. The suborder contains the classic " benthic octopuses," as well as many pelagic octopus families, including the paper nautiluses. The incirrate octopuses are distinguished from th ...
containing all extant octopods except for the cirrate octopodes, argonauts
The Argonauts (; Ancient Greek: ) were a band of heroes in Greek mythology, who in the years before the Trojan War (around 1300 BC) accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their name comes from their ship, '' Argo'', ...
(Alloposidae
The seven-arm octopus (''Haliphron atlanticus'') is one of the two largest known species of octopus; based on scientific records, it has a maximum estimated total length of and mass of . The only other similarly large extant species is the gian ...
, Argonautidae, Ocythoidae
''Ocythoe tuberculata'', also known as the tuberculate pelagic octopus or football octopus, is a pelagic octopus. It is the only known species in the family Ocythoidae.
''Ocythoe tuberculata'' is found in warm and temperate seas, especially ...
and Tremoctopodidae), and the vampire squid.
FamiliesOctopus
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, cuttle ...
Argonautoidea
Argonautoidea is a superfamily of the sub order Incirrata containing all known argonautoids.
Classification
*Class Cephalopoda
**Subclass Nautiloidea: nautiluses
**Subclass †Ammonoidea: ammonites
**Subclass Coleoidea
***Superorder Decapodi ...
**Superfamily Octopodoidea
***Family Amphitretidae
Amphitretidae is a family of mesopelagic octopods which contains three subfamilies, formerly classified as families in their own right. It is classified in the superfamily Octopodoidea. Species in the family Amphipetridae are characterised by hav ...
****subfamily Bolitaeninae
The Bolitaeninae are a subfamily, in the family Amphitretidae, of small, common pelagic octopuses found in all tropical and temperate oceans of the world. The taxonomy of this taxon is not entirely certain; recent research suggests just two ge ...
****subfamily Vitreledonellinae
''Vitreledonella'' is a genus of mesopelagic octopods from the family Amphitretidae which contains two species, one of which is the glass octopus.
These octopods have the sucker on their arms arranged in a single series with the suckers widely ...
***Family Bathypolypodidae
''Bathypolypus'' is a genus of octopuses in the monotypic family Bathypolypodidae. It has five described species.
Species
Species in the genus ''Bathypolypus'' include:
* '' Bathypolypus arcticus'' ( Prosch, 1847)
** '' Bathypolypus arcticus arc ...
***Family Eledonidae
''Eledone'' is a genus of octopuses forming the only genus in the family Eledonidae. It is mainly distributed in the northern and southern Atlantic Ocean, with one species, '' E. palari'', described from the southwestern Pacific Ocean and eastern ...
***Family Enteroctopodidae
***Family Megaleledonidae
Megaleledonidae is a family of octopuses in the superfamily Octopodoidea. It was formerly placed in the family Octopodidae ''sensu lato'' as the subfamily Megaleledoninae but more recent studies have raised this taxon as a valid family.
Reproduc ...
***Family Octopodidae
References
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