Bathypolypus is a genus of octopuses in the monotypic family Bathypolypodidae.
Species Species in the genus Bathypolypus include: Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847) Bathypolypus arcticus arcticus – spoonarm octopus (Prosch, 1847) Bathypolypus arcticus proschi Muus, 1962 Bathypolypus rubrostictus Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008Kaneko, N. & Kubodera, T. (2008). "Two new species of pygmy octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from deep water off the Ryukyu Archipelago, southern Japan." Molluscan Research 28(3): 145–157. Bathypolypus sponsalis – globose octopus (Fischer & Fischer, 1892) Bathypolypus valdiviae – boxer octopus (Thiele in Chun, 1915) Bathypolypus bairdii - Baird's Octopus Verrill, 1873 Bathypolypus ergasticus P. Fischer & H. Fischer, 1892 Bathypolypus pugniger Muus, 2002 Bathypolypus rubrostictus Kaneko & Kubodera, 2008
Synonyms: Bathypolypus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920) is a synonym for Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)Jorgensen E. M., Strugnell J. M. & Allcock A. L. (2010). "Description and phylogenetic relationships of a new genus of octopus, Sasakiopus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae), from the Bering Sea, with a redescription of Sasakiopus salebrosus (Sasaki, 1920)". Journal of Molluscan Studies 76(1): 57-66. . Bathypolypus faeroensis (Frederick Stratten Russel|Russell) is a synonym for Bathypolypus arcticus (Prosch, 1847) (Fabricius, 1777)
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Wood, J.B. 2000. Ph.D. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.