Order Octobrachia Fiorini 1981 (mollusk)
Parent taxon: Vampyropoda according to C. D. Whalen and N. H. Landman 2022
See also Boyle and Rodhouse 2005, Doyle et al. 1994, Fuchs and Schweigert 2018 and Jattiot et al. 2015
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cirroctopodida Octopoda Prototeuthina Vampyromorphida
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore