original description(ofVulcanoctopus hydrothermalis González & Guerra, 1998)González, A.F., Guerra, A., Pascual, S. & Briand, P. (1998). <em>Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis</em> gen. et. sp. nov. (Mollusca, Cephalopoda): an octopus from deep-sea hydrothermal vent site. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 39(2), 169-184.[details]
basis of recordVoight, J.R. (2012). Meristic variation in males of the hydrothermal vent octopus, <em>Muusoctopus hydrothermalis</em> (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 92(2): 361-366.[details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality