Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium
{{Short description|Species of octopus}}
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| image=Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium hoyle.jpg
| image_caption=Drawing of Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium by its discoverer, William Evans Hoyle.
| status = DD
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| taxon = Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium
}}
Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium is a species of octopus. It is only known from one specimen found in 1904, which was poorly preserved. Some characteristics of G. hippocrepium are unknown.{{cite web|last1=Young|first1=Richard E.|last2=Vecchione|first2=Michael|title=Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium|url=http://tolweb.org/Grimpoteuthis_hippocrepium/20122|website=Tree of Life Web Project|accessdate=23 May 2018}}
Description and range
The type specimen of G. hippocrepium was found near Colombia in the eastern Pacific Ocean.{{cite iucn|last1=Allcock|first1=Louise|last2=Lyons|first2=G|title=Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium|date=2014|page=e.T163341A1000089|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T163341A1000089.en}} This octopus has over 50 suckers on its arms, and a shell that is like a horseshoe in shape, while its body is around 80 millimeters long.{{cite web|last1=Young|first1=Richard E.|last2=Vecchione|first2=Michael|title=Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium|url=http://tolweb.org/Grimpoteuthis_hippocrepium/20122|website=Tree of Life Web Project|accessdate=23 May 2018}} It lives at about 3,332 meters deep.{{cite book|editor1-last=Jereb|editor1-first=Patrizia|editor2-last=Roper|editor2-first=Clyde F.E.|editor3-last=Norman|editor3-first=Mark D.|editor4-last=Finn|editor4-first=Julian K.|title=Cephalopods of the World: an Annotated and Illustrated Catalog of Cephalopods Known to Date Volume 3. Octopods and Vampire Squids|date=2016|location=Rome|isbn=978-92-5-107989-8|page=262|url=http://www.fao.org/3/a-i3489e.pdf|accessdate=26 April 2018}} G. hippocrepium could be a demersal species. It is not used by humans.{{cite iucn|last1=Allcock|first1=Louise|last2=Lyons|first2=G|title=Grimpoteuthis hippocrepium|date=2014|page=e.T163341A1000089|doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T163341A1000089.en}}
References
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Category:Cephalopods described in 1904