vampyropod

English

Noun

vampyropod (plural vampyropods)

1. (rare) A member of the proposed group Vampyropoda (equivalent to the superorder Octopodiformes), comprising vampire squid and octopuses; an octopodiform.
   • 1999, Federico Olóriz, Francisco J. Rodríguez-Tovar, editors, Advancing Research on Living and Fossil Cephalopods, Springer Science+Business Media, page 10:

     [T]he ultimate question is whether belemnoids and decapods are sister groups, or whether belemnoids and vampyropods are sister groups.

   • 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 119:

     Ancestral vampyropods diverged from the ancestors of squid way back in the Triassic.