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- Cirrothauma is a genus of deep water octopuses from the cirrate family Cirroteuthidae. The species Cirrothauma are fragile, gelatinous deep-sea octopods...
- Cirrothauma murrayi, the blind cirrate octopus, is a nearly blind octopus whose eyes can sense light, but not form images. It has been found worldwide...
- 1838 Genus Cirrothauma Chun, 1911 Cirrothauma magna (Hoyle, 1885) Cirrothauma murrayi Chun, 1911: often known as the blind cirrate. Cirrothauma hoylei (Robson...
- Cirrothauma magna, also known as the big-eye jellyhead, is a species of deep-sea cirrate octopus that has been found in the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific...
- Superfamily Cirroteuthoidea Family Cirroteuthidae (containing Cirroteuthis & Cirrothauma) Family Stauroteuthidae (containing Stauroteuthis) Family & Superfamily...
- ISBN 978-1420006391. Aldred, R. G.; Nixon, M.; Young, J. Z. (1983). "Cirrothauma murrayi Chun, a finned octopod". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
- scientifically described (in 1836). It is closely related to the genus Cirrothauma within the family Cirroteuthidae. At present the genus contains a single...
- 1880 Bathyraja murrayi Günther, 1880 Bythotiara murrayi Günther, 1903 Cirrothauma murrayi Chun, 1911 Culeolus murrayi Herdman, 1881 Deltocyathus murrayi...
- Bathypolypus valdiviae Austrorossia mastigophora Benthoctopus levis Cirrothauma murrayi Velodona togata Rübsaamen, E.H. (1898). "Grönländische Mycetophiliden...
- reach a large size, with the largest captured specimen likely being a Cirrothauma magna of 1.7 m (5.6 ft) total length and 33 cm (13 in) mantle length...