Octopus
An octopus (plural: octopuses, octopi, or octopodes) is a cephalopod mollusc o the order Octopoda.
It haes twa eyes an fower pairs o airms an, lik ither cephalopods, it is bilaterally symmetric. An octopus haes a haurd beak, wi its mooth at the center pynt o the arms. An octopus haes no internal or external skelet (althou some species hae a vestigial remnant o a shell inside their mantles), allaein it tae squeeze through ticht places. Octopuses are amang the maist intelligent an behaviourally flexible o aw invertebrates.
| Octopus Temporal range: 323.2 – 0 Ma Late Carboniferous – recent | |
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| The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris. | |
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| Kinrick: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Cless: | Cephalopoda |
| Superorder: | Octopodiformes |
| Order: | Octopoda Leach, 1818 |
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