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© M. Vecchione and R.E. Young
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© Richard E. Young
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Tree of Life web project
Members of Cirroctopus are more muscular than is typical for cirrate octopods. The fins are extremely large and the eyes tilt dorsally. Members of the genus are restricted to high latitudes of the southern hemisphere. Cirroctopus is probably the most distinctive of the four opisthoteuthid genera.
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Katja Schulz moved the classifications by Initial Tree of Life web Import and BioLib.cz Import from Octopus to Cirroctopus antarctica.
Katja Schulz moved the classifications by BioLib.cz Import from Octopus to Pteroctopus hoylei (S.S. Berry, 1909).
Katja Schulz moved the classifications by OBIS depth range resource and DiscoverLife map resource from Octopus to Argonauta boettgeri Maltzan, 1881.
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