octopodiform

English

Etymology

From Octopodiformes (superorder name).

Noun

octopodiform (plural octopodiforms)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• vampyropod