Opisthoteuthis albatrossi

{{Short description|Species of octopus}}

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|status_system=IUCN3.1

|status_ref={{cite journal |last1=Allcock |first1=L |last2=Lyons |first2=G |title=Opisthoteuthis albatrossi |url=https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/163404/1005379 |website=IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |year=2014 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T163404A1005379.en|doi-access=free }}

|genus=Opisthoteuthis

|species=albatrossi

|authority=(Sasaki, 1920){{cite web |title=Opisthoteuthis albatrossi (Sasaki, 1920) |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=410386 |website=World Register of Marine Species}}

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|synonyms=*Grimpoteuthis albatrossi {{small|(Sasaki, 1920)}}

• Stauroteuthis albatrossi {{small|Sasaki, 1920}}

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Opisthoteuthis albatrossi (common name in {{langx|ja|オオクラゲダコ}}) is a cirrate octopus originally found off Kinkasan in Japan.{{cite web |last1=Vecchione |first1=Michael |last2=Young |first2=Richard E. |title=Opisthoteuthis albatrossi |url=http://tolweb.org/Opisthoteuthis_albatrossi/20152 |website=Tree of Life Web Project |date=2003}} This species was described from only four specimens. It is similar to Opisthoteuthis californiana;{{cite journal |last1=Pereyra |first1=Walter T. |title=New Records and Observations on the Flapjack Devilfish, Opisthoteuthis californiana Berry |journal=Pacific Science |date=1965 |volume=19 |page=429}} the two may be the same species. It is also similar to Opisthoteuthis japonica.{{cite book |last1=Jereb |first1=P. |title=Cephalopods of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date · Volume 3 |date=2005 |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |isbn=9789251079898 |page=256 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f_F5DwAAQBAJ}}

O. albatrossi lives in the North Pacific, from Japanese waters to the Sea of Okhotsk. It exists at recorded depths of {{cvt|486 to 1,679|m|mi|1}} below the surface.{{cite book |last1=Gibson |first1=R. N. |last2=Atkinson |first2=R. J. A. |last3=Gordon |first3=J. D. M. |title=Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Volume 44 |date=2006 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=9781420006391 |page=297 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R7-TfdYeLEgC }}