Bathypurpurata

Bathypurpurata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Megaleledonidae
Genus:
Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005
Species:
B. profunda
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]

References

  1. ^ Julian Finn (2016). "Bathypurpurata Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
  2. ^ Michael Vecchione; A. Louise Allcock & Uwe Piatkowski (2005). "Unusual incirrate octopods from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, including Bathypurpurata profunda, a newly discovered genus and species of deepwater pygmy octopod (Cephalopoda)". Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin. 66: 109–115. Abstract
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