Pinnoctopus

Pinnoctopus is a genus of octopuses in the family Octopodidae. It is of doubtful validity.

Pinnoctopus
Pinnoctopus cordiformis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Cephalopoda
Order:	Octopoda
Family:	Octopodidae
Genus:	Pinnoctopus d'Orbigny, 1845 in 1845-1847
Species
See text.

Species

• Pinnoctopus cordiformis (Quoy and Gaimard, 1832. nomen dubium
• Pinnoctopus kermadecensis (Berry, 1914)

Taxonomic note

ITIS treats Pinnoctopus as a synonym of Octopus Cuvier, 1797. While the World Register of Marine Species treats it as a nomen dubium, has P. cordiformis as a species of doubtful validity and assigns P. kermadecensis to Octopus.^[1]