Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski, Strugnell 2009
- 1. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB 2 3 EJ, UK School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, 97 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT 9 7 BL, UK Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605 - 2496, USA Duke Marine Laboratory, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA The Martin Ryan Marine Science Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland Corresponding author: jan. strugnell @ gmail. com
Description
Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski, Strugnell, 2009
Type material examined: Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski, Strugnell, 2009: 18 holotype USNM 1117765, RV Polarstern, 61° 14'S 56° 25.8' W (Antarctic Peninsula), Stn 42/022, 21 November 1996, 394- 412 m, male. Octopus levis Hoyle, 1885: 220 holotype BMNH 1889.4.24.43, RV Challenger, 52°59'S 73°33'E (Heard Island), Stn 151, 7 February 1874, 75 fathoms, male.
Additional material examined: Benthoctopus rigbyae: * NMSZ 2002037.032, RV Polarstern, 61°10'S 54°34'W (Antarctic Peninsula), Stn 61/048-1, 16 March 2002, 343 m, male, leg. & det. AL Allcock. 10 additional specimens from the Antarctic Peninsula detailed in Vecchione et al. (2009) preserved under catalogue numbers NMSZ 2002037.030 - 031 and NMSZ 2002037.033 - 034.
Diagnosis. Arms approximately 3–4 times ML. Arm formula variable. Funnel organ W-shaped. Gills with 5–8 lamellae per inner demibranch and 6–8 lamellae per outer demibranch. LLI 6–16 (mean 10). Maximum spermatophore length 102, maximum SpLI 110, maximum number of spermatophores 28. Mature males without enlarged suckers. Integument smooth.
Remarks. This species differs from Benthoctopus levis by the funnel organ (VV in B. levis) and arm length (shorter in B. levis).
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.2096.1.27 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5321990 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFA8327AFF929C15FFF1914AFFD0FFD1 (URL)
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- https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03914A02FF959C12FF6692D3FEAEFA1D (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- NMSZ , RV
- Event date
- 2002-03-16
- Family
- Octopodidae
- Genus
- Benthoctopus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- 031 , 034 , NMSZ 2002037.030 , NMSZ 2002037.032 , NMSZ 2002037.033
- Order
- Octopoda
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Scientific name authorship
- Vecchione, Allcock, Piatkowski, Strugnell
- Species
- rigbyae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2002-03-16
- Taxonomic concept label
- Benthoctopus rigbyae Vecchione, 2009 sec. Strugnell, Voight, Collins & Allcock, 2009
References
- Vecchione, M., Allcock, L., Piatkowski, U. & Strugnell, J. (2009) Benthoctopus rigbyae n. sp., a new species of cephalopod (Octopoda; Incirrata) from near the Antarctic Peninsula. Malacologia, 51, 13 - 28.
- Hoyle, W. E. (1885) Diagnoses of new species of Cephalopoda collected during the cruise of H. M. S. ' Challenger' - Part I. The Octopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 5, 15, 222 - 236.