Macrotritopus

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Macrotritopus
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Macrotritopus defilippi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Genus: Macrotritopus
Grimpe, 1922 [1]
Type species
Octopus gracilis accepted as Macrotritopus equivocus (type by original designation)
Verrill, 1884

Macrotritopus is a poorly known genus of octopuses in the family Octopodidae. As it stands, Macrotritopus contains two valid described species, Macrotritopus defilippi from the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean, and Macrotritopus beatrixi from the Caribbean and SW Atlantic [2] . Two poorly described, unresolved taxa are known only from planktonic hatchlings ( Macrotritopus equivocus and M. scorpio ), and a further three undescribed Indo-Pacific species may be attributable to this genus [3] .

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The genus Macrotritopus was described by Grimpe (1922) for the single planktonic specimen of Octopus gracilis Verill, 1884, the name referring to the very long third arm pair on the paralarvae [2] . Given that O.gracilis Verill, 1884 was a junior homonym of O. gracilis Souleyet, 1852 [4] , authors Joubin & Robson (1929) replaced it with Octopus (Macrotritopus) equivocus, with Macrotritopus regarded as a subgenus at that time, these authors also described M. danae [2] . For a time these Macrotritopus species (all known from paralarvae) were misidentified as juveniles of Scaeurgus unicirrhus [2] . Researchers in the late 1970s/early 1980s proved that Macrotritopus paralarvae from the Atlantic grew into the previously described Octopus deflippi Verany, 1851, thus connecting the juveniles with the adults (and moving Octopus deflippi to genus Macrotritopus) [2] . Therefore, the type species of Macrotritopus (M.equivocus) is a juvenile, and M. defillipi was the only species where the adult form was known (until the 2018 description of M. beatrixi). The presence of "Macrotritopus larvae" off South Africa and the Indo‑West Pacific from Australia to Hawaii indicates that there may be a number of yet to be described species within this genus. [3]

Description

The genus Macrotritopus are small octopus with elongate-ovoid mantle, and with long and slender arms 4-7 times the mantle length and with the third arm pair distinctly longer than the others (and with the dorsal arm pair always shortest). The arms are also capable of autotomy near the arm bases, have only very shallow webbing, and the males have a very small hectocotylus on the third right arm (hectocotylus length <3% the arm length). [3] Molecular work which includes Macrotritopus sp. from the SW Atlantic (possibly M.beatrixi) has recently shown that the genus groups very closely with Thaumoctopus mimicus and Wunderpus photogenicus , which are also long-armed species living in shallow sandy environments [5] .

Species

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References

  1. ↑ Julian Finn (2017). "Macrotritopus Grimpe, 1922". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Guerrero-Kommritz, Jürgen; Rodriguez-Bermudez, Adriana (2019-06-01). "Soft-bottom octopods (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) of the southern Caribbean with the description of a new species of Macrotritopus". Marine Biodiversity. 49 (3): 1197–1215. doi:10.1007/s12526-018-0903-8. ISSN   1867-1624.
  3. 1 2 3 Patrizia Jereb; Clyde F.E. Roper; Mark D. Norman; Julian K. Finn, eds. (2016). Cephalopds of the World An Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Cephalopods species known to date Volume 3 Octopods and Vampire Squids (PDF). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome. ISBN   9789251079898.
  4. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Octopus gracilis A. E. Verrill, 1884". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  5. ↑ de Luna Sales, João Bráullio; Haimovici, Manuel; Ready, Jonathan Stuart; Souza, Rosália Furtado; Ferreira, Yrlene; de Cassia Silva Pinon, Jessica; Costa, Luis Fernando Carvalho; Asp, Nils Edvin; Sampaio, Iracilda; Schneider, Horacio (2019-04-11). "Surveying cephalopod diversity of the Amazon reef system using samples from red snapper stomachs and description of a new genus and species of octopus". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 5956. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-42464-8. ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   6459862 . PMID   30976082.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: PMC format (link)
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