Muusoctopus

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Muusoctopus
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Muusoctopus levis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Enteroctopodidae
Genus: Muusoctopus
Gleadall, 2004 [1]
Type species
Octopus januarii
Hoyle, 1885

Muusoctopus is a cosmopolitan genus of deep-sea octopus from the family Enteroctopodidae. 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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References

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  3. 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.