Bathypurpurata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | Megaleledonidae |
Genus: |
Bathypurpurata Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005 |
Species: | B. profunda
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Binomial name | |
Bathypurpurata profunda Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005
[1]
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Bathypurpurata is a genus of incirrate octopus in the family Megaleledonidae from the Antarctic Ocean. The genus has only one species, Bathypurpurata profunda, a small purple octopus which lacks an ink sac and has a single row of suckers and a very large salivary gland. It was described in 2005 from a type specimen caught between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. [2]
Bathypurpurata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | Megaleledonidae |
Genus: |
Bathypurpurata Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005 |
Species: | B. profunda
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Binomial name | |
Bathypurpurata profunda Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005
[1]
|
Bathypurpurata is a genus of incirrate octopus in the family Megaleledonidae from the Antarctic Ocean. The genus has only one species, Bathypurpurata profunda, a small purple octopus which lacks an ink sac and has a single row of suckers and a very large salivary gland. It was described in 2005 from a type specimen caught between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. [2]