Muusoctopus is a cosmopolitan genus of deep-sea
octopus from the
familyEnteroctopodidae. These are small to medium-sized octopuses which lack an
ink sac.[2] Recent work has suggested that these octopuses originated in the
North Atlantic and subsequently moved into the
North Pacific while the species in the
Southern Hemisphere are descended from multiple invasions from northern oceans.[3]
Species
These species are currently classified as members of the genus Muusoctopus:[1]
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abBieler R, Bouchet P, Gofas S, Marshall B, Rosenberg G, La Perna R, Neubauer TA, Sartori AF, Schneider S, Vos C, ter Poorten JJ, Taylor J, Dijkstra H, Finn J, Bank R, Neubert E, Moretzsohn F, Faber M, Houart R, Picton B, Garcia-Alvarez O, eds. (2024).
"Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004". MolluscaBase.
World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
^Gleadall IG; Guerrero-Kommritz J; Hochberg FG; Laptikhovsky VV. (2010). "The inkless octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the southwest Atlantic". Zoological Science. 27: 528–553.
doi:
10.2108/zsj.27.528.
PMID20528161.
^Christian M. Ibáñez; María C. Pardo-Gandarillas; Fabiola Peña; et al. (2016). "Phylogeny and biogeography of Muusoctopus (Cephalopoda: Enteroctopodidae)". Zoologica Scripta. 45 (5): 494–503.
doi:
10.1111/zsc.12171.