Cirrothauma is a genus of deep water octopuses from the cirrate family Cirroteuthidae. The species of Cirrothauma are fragile, gelatinous deep-sea octopods with a large 'butterfly-shaped' shell.
Cirrothauma is a genus of deep water octopuses from the cirrate family Cirroteuthidae. The species of Cirrothauma are fragile, gelatinous deep-sea octopods with a large 'butterfly-shaped' shell.
They are unique in the Octopoda in being blind, with eyes lacking lenses and being imbedded/covered in head tissues. The genus contains a single species Cirrothauma murrayi.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).