The Octopodidae are a family containing the majority of known octopus species (about 175 species).
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species lists these 23 genera:
- Abdopus <small>Norman & Finn, 2001</small> (7 species)
- Ameloctopus <small>Norman, 1992</small> (monotypic)
- Amphioctopus <small>P. Fischer, 1882</small> (16 species)
- Callistoctopus <small>Taki, 1964</small> (11 species)
- Cistopus <small>Gray, 1849</small> (4 species)
- Euaxoctopus <small>Voss, 1971</small> (3 species)
- Galeoctopus <small>Norman, Boucher & Hochberg, 2004</small> (monotypic)
- Grimpella <small>Robson, 1928</small> (monotypic)
- Hapalochlaena <small>Robson, 1929</small> (4 species)
- Histoctopus <small>Norman, Boucher-Rodoni & Hochberg, 2009</small> (2 species)
- Lepidoctopus <small>Haimovici & Sales, 2019</small> (monotypic)
- Macrochlaena <small>Robson, 1929</small> (monotypic)
- Macroctopus <small>Robson, 1928</small> (monotypic)
- Macrotritopus <small>Grimpe, 1922</small> (2 species)
- Octopus <small>Cuvier, 1798</small> (99 species)
- Paroctopus <small>Naef, 1923</small> (3 species)
- Pinnoctopus <small>d'Orbigny, 1845</small> (8 species)
- Pteroctopus <small>P. Fischer, 1882</small> (6 species)
- Robsonella <small>Adam, 1938</small> (2 species)
- Scaeurgus <small>Troschel, 1857</small> (5 species)
- Teretoctopus <small>Robson, 1929</small> (2 species)
- Thaumoctopus <small>Norman & Hochberg, 2005</small> (monotypic)
- Wunderpus <small>Hochberg, Norman & Finn, 2006</small> (monotypic)
Several undescribed species are known, such as the white V octopus which may or may not be placed in the genus Thaumoctopus. Two fossil genera are also known: Styletoctopus from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the Sannine Formation in Lebanon, and Bolcaoctopus from the Early Eocene (Ypresian) of Monte Bolca, Italy.
The following is a maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 13 protein-coding genes partitioned by codon, and nodes with less than 70% bootstrap support are collapsed, forming polytomies. The root, being Vampyroteuthis infernalis, is not shown:
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