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Muse Octopuses
Muusoctopus
Muusoctopus is a cosmopolitan genus of deep sea octopuses from the family Enteroctopodidae. These are small to medium-sized octopuses which lack an ink sac. 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.
24 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Keeled Octopus
speciesMuusoctopus leioderma
January Octopus
speciesMuusoctopus januarii
Muusoctopus eicomar
speciesMuusoctopus eicomar
Muusoctopus yaquinae
speciesMuusoctopus yaquinae
Muusoctopus abruptus
speciesMuusoctopus abruptus
Muusoctopus bizikovi
speciesMuusoctopus bizikovi
Muusoctopus canthylus
speciesMuusoctopus canthylus
Muusoctopus fuscus
speciesMuusoctopus fuscus
Muusoctopus hokkaidensis
speciesMuusoctopus hokkaidensis
Muusoctopus johnsonianus
speciesMuusoctopus johnsonianus
Muusoctopus levis
speciesMuusoctopus levis
Muusoctopus longibrachus
speciesMuusoctopus longibrachus
Muusoctopus rigbyae
speciesMuusoctopus rigbyae
Muusoctopus sibiricus
speciesMuusoctopus sibiricus
Muusoctopus violescens
speciesMuusoctopus violescens
Muusoctopus eureka
speciesMuusoctopus eureka
Berry's Deepwater Octopus
speciesMuusoctopus berryi
Karubar Octopus
speciesMuusoctopus karubar
Muusoctopus oregonae
speciesMuusoctopus oregonae
Muusoctopus oregonensis
speciesMuusoctopus oregonensis
Muusoctopus profundorum
speciesMuusoctopus profundorum
Muusoctopus pseudonymus
speciesMuusoctopus pseudonymus
Muusoctopus thielei
speciesMuusoctopus thielei
Muusoctopus robustus
speciesMuusoctopus robustus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 699693.