Deep-Sea taxon details
Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004
527126 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527126)
accepted
Genus
Octopus januarii Hoyle, 1885 accepted as Muusoctopus januarii (Hoyle, 1885) (type by original designation)
- Species Muusoctopus abruptus (Sasaki, 1920)
- Species Muusoctopus canthylus (G. L. Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Species Muusoctopus eureka (G. C. Robson, 1929)
- Species Muusoctopus hokkaidensis (S. S. Berry, 1921)
- Species Muusoctopus januarii (Hoyle, 1885)
- Species Muusoctopus johnsonianus (Allcock, Strugnell, Ruggiero & M. A. Collins, 2006)
- Species Muusoctopus karubar (Norman, Hochberg & Lu, 1997)
- Species Muusoctopus leioderma (S. S. Berry, 1911)
- Species Muusoctopus levis (Hoyle, 1885)
- Species Muusoctopus oregonae (Toll, 1981)
- Species Muusoctopus oregonensis (G. L. Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Species Muusoctopus profundorum (G. C. Robson, 1932)
- Species Muusoctopus rigbyae (Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
- Species Muusoctopus robustus (G. L. Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Species Muusoctopus yaquinae (G. L. Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
- Species Muusoctopus clyderoperi (O'Shea, 1999) accepted as Vulcanoctopus clyderoperi (O'Shea, 1999) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muusoctopus hydrothermalis (González & Guerra, 1998) accepted as Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis González & Guerra, 1998
- Species Muusoctopus tangaroa (O'Shea, 1999) accepted as Vulcanoctopus tangaroa (O'Shea, 1999) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Muusoctopus tegginmathae (O'Shea, 1999) accepted as Vulcanoctopus tegginmathae (O'Shea, 1999) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gleadall, I. G. (2004). Some old and new genera of Octopus. <em>Interdisciplinary Information Sciences.</em> 10(2): 99-112., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/iis/10/2/10_2_99/_pdf
page(s): 105 [details]
page(s): 105 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527126 on 2025-07-01
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527126 on 2025-07-01
Date
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original description
Gleadall, I. G. (2004). Some old and new genera of Octopus. <em>Interdisciplinary Information Sciences.</em> 10(2): 99-112., available online at https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/iis/10/2/10_2_99/_pdf
page(s): 105 [details]
additional source Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date</i>. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]
additional source Ibáñez, C.M., Pardo-Gandarillas, M.C., Peña, F., Gleadall, I.G., Poulin, E. & Sellanes, J. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of <em>Muusoctopus</em> (Cephalopoda: Enteroctopodidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 45: 494-503. [details]
page(s): 105 [details]
additional source Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. <i>Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date</i>. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. <em>FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO].</em> 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls. [details]
additional source Ibáñez, C.M., Pardo-Gandarillas, M.C., Peña, F., Gleadall, I.G., Poulin, E. & Sellanes, J. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of <em>Muusoctopus</em> (Cephalopoda: Enteroctopodidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 45: 494-503. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Editor's comment When Volcanoctopus and Muusoctopus are treated as synonyms, Volcanoctopus has priority [details]
