octopodiform
English edit
Etymology edit
From Octopodiformes (superorder name).
Noun edit
octopodiform (plural octopodiforms)
- A cephalopod of the superorder Octopodiformes, comprising octopuses and vampire squid.
- 2002, Kent E. Carpenter, Living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic, volume 1, page 153:
- The buccal crown is present in most decapodiforms but absent from all octopodiforms.
- 2013, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 229:
- The Vampire squid – which is actually an octopodiform and not a squid, and looks like an apparition from an impossibly ancient dream – is harmless to humans.