Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda

Cirrata Grimpe, 1916

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Cirroteuthoidea W. Keferstein, 1866
Opisthoteuthoidea A. E. Verrill, 1896

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: 有触毛亜目

Literature

original description

Grimpe, G. (1916). Chunioteuthis - Eine neue Cephalopodengattung. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 46(12): 349–359.

basis of record

Verhoeff, T. J. (2023). The molecular phylogeny of cirrate octopods (Cephalopoda: Octopoda: Cirrata) using COI and 16S sequences. Folia Malacologica. 31(4): 175–196.

additional source

Collins M.A. & Villanueva R. (2006) Taxonomy, ecology and behaviour of the cirrate octopods. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 44: 277-322.

additional source

Piertney S.B., Hudelot C., Hochberg F.G. & Collins M.A. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships among cirrate octopods (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) resolved using mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27(2): 348-353.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cirrata. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:11732

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2023-08-16 by Philippe Bouchet

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