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Cirroteuthis
Sign in to saveCirroteuthis is a genus of cirrate octopus containing two species. It was the first genus (and contains the first species) of cirrate octopus to be described (in 1838). It is closely related to the genus Cirrothauma within the family Cirroteuthidae.
Species
Vampire Squid
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderOctopoda
- FamilyCirroteuthidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- Family
- Cirroteuthidae
- Collections
- SIO, NHMUK, USNM, CMN, SBMNH, UM-RSMAS
- Recorded in
- Mexico, South Africa, United States, Canada, Spain, Savage Islands
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Cirroteuthis is a genus of cirrate octopus containing two species. It was the first genus (and contains the first species) of cirrate octopus to be described (in 1838). It is closely related to the genus Cirrothauma within the family Cirroteuthidae.
The type species (C. muelleri) is restricted to the Arctic Ocean and far North Atlantic. Specimens from the Pacific, Indian Ocean and southern hemisphere, which have been referred to as the big-finned jellyhead or C. cf. muelleri, have recently been attributed to a separate species Cirroteuthis kirrilyae Verhoeff & O'Shea, 2025 (based on both morphological and molecular data).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cirroteuthis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.