Bathypurpurata is a genus of incirrate octopus in the family Megaleledonidae from the Antarctic Ocean. The genus has only one species, Bathypurpurata profunda, a small purple octopus which lacks an ink sac and has a single row of suckers and a very large salivary gland. It was described in 2005 from a type specimen caught between the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Cephalopoda |
| Order: | Octopoda |
| Family: | Megaleledonidae |
| Genus: | Bathypurpurata Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005 |
| Species: | B. profunda
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| Binomial name | |
| Bathypurpurata profunda Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005[1]
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References
edit- ^ Julian Finn (2016). "Bathypurpurata Vecchione, Allcock & Piatkowski, 2005". World Register of Marine Species. Flanders Marine Institute. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ Michael Vecchione; A. Louise Allcock & Uwe Piatkowski (2005). "Unusual incirrate octopods from the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, including Bathypurpurata profunda, a newly discovered genus and species of deepwater pygmy octopod (Cephalopoda)". Phuket Marine Biological Center Research Bulletin. 66: 109–115. Abstract