{{Short description|Genus of octopuses}} {{Speciesbox | genus = Galeoctopus | parent_authority = Norman, Boucher & Hochberg, 2004<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=457973 | title = ''Galeoctopus lateralis'' Norman, Boucher & Hochberg, 2004 | accessdate = 3 February 2018 | publisher = Flanders Marine Institute | author = Julian Finn | year = 2017 | work = World Register of Marine Species}}</ref> | species = lateralis | authority = Norman, Boucher & Hochberg, 2004 }}
'''''Galeoctopus lateralis''''', the '''sharkclub octopus''', is a species of octopus, from the family Octopodidae. This species was described in 2004 from specimens collected at depths of 200–400 m in the southern and western Pacific Ocean. It is a small octopus in which the mature males have a distinctive ligula which superficially resembles a shark's jaw and head including teeth‐like lugs. Other distinguishing characteristics include a lateral mantle ridge, a skin sculpture which includes star-shaped papillae, and the females have oviducts with hare distally swollen.<ref name = JoM>{{cite journal | author1 = Mark D. Norman | author2 = Renata Boucher | author3 = F. G. Hochberg | year = 2004 | title = The Sharkclub Octopus, ''Galeoctopus lateralis'', a new genus and species from the Western Pacific Ocean (Cephalopoda: Ooctopodidae) | doi = 10.1093/mollus/70.3.247 | journal = Journal of Molluscan Studies | volume = 70 | issue = 3 | pages = 247–256| doi-access = }} Abstract.</ref>
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Category:Octopuses Category:Cephalopod genera Category:Cephalopods described in 2004