Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Cephalopoda > Subclass Coleoidea > Superorder Octopodiformes > Order Octopoda > Suborder Incirrata > Superfamily Octopodoidea > Family Enteroctopodidae

Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Muusoctopus januarii (Hoyle, 1885)
Muusoctopus johnsonianus (Allcock, Strugnell, Ruggiero & M. A. Collins, 2006)

Literature

original description	Gleadall, I. G. (2004). Some old and new genera of Octopus. Interdisciplinary Information Sciences. 10(2): 99-112.
additional source	Norman M.D., Finn J.K. & Hochberg F.G. (2014). Family Octopodidae. pp. 36-215, in P. Jereb, C.F.E. Roper, M.D. Norman & J.K. Finn eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(3): 353 pp. 11 pls.
additional source	Ibáñez, C.M., Pardo-Gandarillas, M.C., Peña, F., Gleadall, I.G., Poulin, E. & Sellanes, J. (2016). Phylogeny and biogeography of Muusoctopus (Cephalopoda: Enteroctopodidae). Zoologica Scripta. 45: 494-503.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Muusoctopus Gleadall, 2004. 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:527126

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Occurrence

Present

Absent

Doubtful

Native

Introduced

Naturalised

Invasive

Managed

No data

Environment

marine, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

CITES:
appendix 1 This species is listed on the CITES Appendix I which means it is threatened with extinction and CITES prohibits international trade in specimens of these species except when the purpose of the import is not commercial, for instance for scientific research.