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Stauroteuthis
Sign in to saveStauroteuthis is a genus of deepwater cirrate octopus, a cephalopod mollusk. This is the only genus in the family Stauroteuthidae, and only three species have been described in this genus.
Species
Balloon Octopus
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderOctopoda
- FamilyStauroteuthidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 14
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Stauroteuthidae
- Collections
- USNM, YPM, NHMUK, UM-RSMAS, SBMNH
- Recorded in
- United States
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- Parent taxon
- Stauroteuthidae
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- Stauroteuthis.jpg
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Stauroteuthis is a genus of deepwater cirrate octopus, a cephalopod mollusk. This is the only genus in the family Stauroteuthidae, and only three species have been described in this genus.
The organisms live below water depth; although sometimes found as deep as underwater, they generally live at a water depth of around . They do not possess a radula.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stauroteuthis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.