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Macrotritopus defilippi, commonly known as the Lilliput longarm octopus or the Atlantic longarm octopus, is a small species of octopus, a marine cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. [ 1 ] This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean , the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean .
A type of marine mollusc in the Cephalopod class of the Mollusca order — the Octopus. The preferred plural form is Octopuses. The main article for this category is Octopus .
Abdopus horridus, the Red Sea octopus or common reef octopus, is a species of octopus in the genus Abdopus from the western Indian Ocean. [2] It occurs in the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea . It has a small body and long arms with a complex skin sculpture and pigmentation pattern on the body which it uses to camouflage itself.
Amphioctopus fangsiao, called webfoot octopus, [2] is a species of octopus, a cephalopod belonging to the genus Amphioctopus. [3] It is found in the Pacific Ocean, including off the coasts of New Zealand [4] as well as in the Yellow Sea and surrounding Chinese shores. It is also commercially fished. [5] [6]
This octopus is native to the Great Barrier Reef [1] and is often found throughout the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. There are six other species of octopuses within the subgenus Abdopus with a large number of organisms not yet described. [3] This octopus is notable for its unique body patterning through which it can change.
Macroctopus maorum is a large octopus and it is regularly described as a ‘robust’ species, it is a member of the Octopus macropus species complex. The morphological traits characteristic of this complex are a high number of gill lamellae, a robust conical copulatory organ and arms of varying length with long unequal dorsal arms generally four to six times longer than the mantle.
O. californiana has a distribution in the northern and northeastern Pacific Ocean, ranging in the west from off central Honshū and the Sea of Okhotsk, its northernmost range is the Bering Sea, and its eastern range is along the western coast of North America as far south as Eureka Bar, California (the type locality, at 350 m depth). [9]
Opisthoteuthis philipii is an octopus of the Indian Ocean. It lives off the coast of Kerala, India. [ 3 ] Known specimens were found between 275–365 m (902–1,198 ft) deep in the Arabian Sea [ 1 ] near Alappuzha .