Graneledone boreopacifica
| Graneledone boreopacifica | |
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| G. boreopacifica on the Davidson Seamount at 1,973 m depth | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Megaleledonidae |
| Genus: | Graneledone |
| Species: | G. boreopacifica
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| Binomial name | |
| Graneledone boreopacifica Nesis, 1982
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Graneledone boreopacifica is an octopus in the family Megaleledonidae. It can be found in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
The holotype of this species measures 9 cm in mantle length.[1]
The type specimen was collected in the Pacific Ocean (50°N, 151°E) and is deposited at the Zoological Institute in Saint Petersburg, Russia.[2]
A female Graneledone boreopacifica was observed in the Monterey Canyon by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, brooding her eggs for a record 53 months, making this the longest brooding or pregnancy period known in the animal kingdom. This also makes it the longest living octopus – most octopuses only live for 1 or 2 years – which this octopus beats with its brooding period alone.[3][4] Female Graneledone boreopacifica tend to brood their eggs between the depths of 1200 and 2000 m; the eggs were never unattended.[5]
References
- ^ Hochberg, F.G. 1998. Class Cephalopoda. In: P.V. Scott & J.A. Blake (Eds.) Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and the Western Santa Barbara Channel: Vol. 8. Santa Barbara, California, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.
- ^ Current Classification of Recent Cephalopoda
- ^ Chung, Emily (30 July 2014). "Octopus mom waits record 4.5 years for eggs to hatch". CBC News. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- ^ Robison, Bruce; Seibel, Brad; Drazen, Jeffrey (2014-07-30). "Deep-Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) Conducts the Longest-Known Egg-Brooding Period of Any Animal". PLOS ONE. 9 (7): e103437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103437. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4116195. PMID 25075745.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Robison, Bruce; Seibel, Brad; Drazen, Jeffrey (2014). "Deep-Sea Octopus (Graneledone boreopacifica) Conducts the Longest-Known Egg-Brooding Period of Any Animal". PLOS ONE. 9 (7): e103437. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103437. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4116195. PMID 25075745.
External links
- "CephBase: Graneledone boreopacifica". Archived from the original on 2005-08-17.
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