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Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004 
AphiaID: 527126

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Octopodiformes (Infraclass) > Octopoda (Order) > Incirrata (Suborder) > Octopodoidea (Superfamily) > Octopodidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Octopus januarii Hoyle, 1885 (type by original designation)
Parent Octopodidae d'Orbigny, 1839
Source  original description: Gleadall I.G. (2004) Some old and new genera of octopus. Interdisciplinary Information Sciences 10(2):99–112. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Muusoctopus bizikovi Gleadall, Guerrero-Kommritz, Hochberg & Laptikhovsky, 2010
Species Muusoctopus canthylus (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
Species Muusoctopus clyderoperi (O'Shea, 1999)
Species Muusoctopus eureka (Robson, 1929)
Species Muusoctopus fuscus (Taki, 1964)
Species Muusoctopus hokkaidensis (S. S. Berry, 1921)
Species Muusoctopus januarii (Hoyle, 1885)
Species Muusoctopus johnsonianus (Allcock, Strugnell, Ruggiero & Collins, 2006)
Species Muusoctopus karubar (Norman, Hochberg & C. C. Lu, 1997)
Species Muusoctopus longibrachus (Ibañez, Sepulveda & Chong, 2006)
Species Muusoctopus normani (Massy, 1907)
Species Muusoctopus oregonae (Toll, 1981)
Species Muusoctopus oregonensis (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
Species Muusoctopus profundorum (Robson, 1932)
Species Muusoctopus rigbyae (Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski & Strugnell, 2009)
Species Muusoctopus robustus (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
Species Muusoctopus sibiricus (Loyning, 1930)
Species Muusoctopus tangaroa (O'Shea, 1999)
Species Muusoctopus tegginmathae (O'Shea, 1999)
Species Muusoctopus yaquinae (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)

Species Muusoctopus macrophallus (Voss & Pearcy, 1990) accepted as Muusoctopus yaquinae (Voss & Pearcy, 1990)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527126
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-09-25 10:52:37Z  created  Bouchet, Philippe
2010-10-17 13:28:46Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527126 on 2013-05-22
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