Common name (e.g. turtle)

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Genus + Species (e.g. Caretta caretta)

Muusoctopus aegir   Golikov, Gudmundsson & Sabirov, 2023

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Cephalopoda | Octopoda | Enteroctopodidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Pelagic; depth range 86 - 2442 m (Ref. 130569).  Polar

Distribution Territories | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

Northeast Atlantic and the Arctic: from the eastern slope of Greenland, Faroe-Shetland Channel, Norway, Barents Sea, Kara Sea, and Russia.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ?  range ? - ? cm Max length : 5.0 cm ML male/unsexed; (Ref. 130569); 5.2 cm ML (female)

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | Larvae

Main reference References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Golikov, A.V., G. Gudmundsson, M.E. Blicher, L.L. Jørgensen, E.I. Korneeva, S.H. Olafsdottir, E.I. Shagimardanova, L.H. Shigapova, D.V. Zakharov, O.L. Zimina and R.M. Sabirov 2023 A review of the genus Muusoctopus (Cephalopoda: Octopoda) from Arctic waters. Zoological Letters 9(21):1-39. (Ref. 130569)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2 (Global))

CITES status (Ref. 108899)

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Threat to humans

Human uses

FAO - Publication: search | FishSource |

Tools

Internet sources

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO - Publication: search | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Go, Search) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Fishing Vulnerability (Ref. 71543)

Low vulnerability (10 of 100).

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