Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium | |
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Drawing of Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium by its discoverer, William Evans Hoyle. | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | Grimpoteuthidae |
Genus: | Grimpoteuthis |
Species: | G. hippocrepium
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Binomial name | |
Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium Hoyle, 1904 [2]
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Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium is a species of octopus. It is only known from one specimen found in 1904, which was poorly preserved. Some characteristics G. hippocrepium are unknown.[3]
The type specimen of G. hippocrepium was found near Colombia in the eastern Pacific Ocean.[4] This octopus has over 50 suckers on its arms, and a shell that is like a horseshoe in shape, while its body is around 80 millimeters long.[3] It lives at about 3,332 meters deep.[5] G. hippocrepium could be a demersal species. It is not used by humans.[4]