Octopodidae

The Octopodidae family includes the majority of known octopus species, with around 175 species identified.

The World Register of Marine Species lists these 23 genera:

• Abdopus (Norman & Finn, 2001) – 7 species
• Ameloctopus (Norman, 1992) – monotypic  
• Amphioctopus (P. Fischer, 1882) – 16 species  
• Callistoctopus (Taki, 1964) – 11 species  
• Cistopus (Gray, 1849) – 4 species  
• Euaxoctopus (Voss, 1971) – 3 species  
• Galeoctopus (Norman, Boucher & Hochberg, 2004) – monotypic  
• Grimpella (Robson, 1928) – monotypic  
• Hapalochlaena (Robson, 1929) – 4 species  
• Histoctopus (Norman, Boucher-Rodoni & Hochberg, 2009) – 2 species  
• Lepidoctopus (Haimovici & Sales, 2019) – monotypic  
• Macrochlaena (Robson, 1929) – monotypic  
• Macroctopus (Robson, 1928) – monotypic  
• Macrotritopus (Grimpe, 1922) – 2 species  
• Octopus (Cuvier, 1798) – 99 species  
• Paroctopus (Naef, 1923) – 3 species  
• Pinnoctopus d’Orbigny, 1845 (2 species)
• Pteroctopus P. Fischer, 1882 (6 species)
• Robsonella Adam, 1938 (2 species)
• Scaeurgus Troschel, 1857 (5 species)
• Teretoctopus Robson, 1929 (2 species)
• Thaumoctopus Norman & Hochberg, 2005 (monotypic)
• Wunderpus Hochberg, Norman & Finn, 2006 (monotypic)