| Cryptoteuthis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Grimpoteuthidae |
| Genus: | Cryptoteuthis Collins, 2004 |
| Species: | C. brevibracchiata
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| Binomial name | |
| Cryptoteuthis brevibracchiata Collins, 2005[2]
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Cryptoteuthis brevibracchiata, the short-arm flapjack octopod,[3] is a deepwater species of octopod. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Cryptoteuthis one of the cirrate octopuses of the family Grimpoteuthidae, the umbrella octopuses.[2] It is known from a single specimen which was collected in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It has characteristics which are shared with two other genera, Opisthoteuthis and Grimpoteuthis, but is sufficiently distinctive from either of these to warrant the erection of a new genus.[4]
- ^ Lyons, G.; Allcock, L. (2014). "Cryptoteuthis brevibracchiata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T176058A1425759. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T176058A1425759.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b Philippe Bouchet (2015). "Cryptoteuthis brevibracchiata Collins, 2004". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 5 February 2018.
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FAOwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Martin A. Collins (2004). "Cryptoteuthis brevibracchiata: a new species and genus of cirrate octopod (Octopoda: Cirrata)". Journal of Molluscan Studies. 70 (3): 263–267. doi:10.1093/mollus/70.3.263.