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Mimic octopus showing typical pattern. The mimic octopus was first discovered off the coast of Sulawesi, Indonesia in 1998 on the bottom of a muddy river mouth. [5] [6] It has since been found to inhabit the Indo-Pacific, ranging from the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman in the west to New Caledonia in the east, and Gulf of Thailand and the Philippines in the north to the Great Barrier Reef in south.
Wunderpus photogenicus, the wunderpus octopus, is a small-bodied species of octopus with distinct white and rusty brown coloration. [2] 'Wunderpus' from German "wunder" meaning 'marvel or wonder'. [3] Due to the appearance and behavior of the wunderpus, it is frequently confused with its close relative, the mimic octopus.
Ant Man star Paul Rudd, age 55, is the narrator for National Geographic's upcoming series Secrets of the Octopus.Octopuses, or octopi, are such amazing creatures and they can range in size from a ...
Natural predators of cirrate octopuses include large teleost fish and sharks, and even marine mammals such as sperm whales and seals, but these are mostly predators of other cirrate genera. Grimpoteuthis has only been recorded in the stomach contents of a shark. [14] The Grimpoteuthis do not have an ink sac (as is the case with all cirrate ...
Aggressive mimicry stands in semantic contrast with defensive mimicry, where it is the prey that acts as a mimic, with predators being duped. Defensive mimicry includes the well-known Batesian and Müllerian forms of mimicry, where the mimic shares outward characteristics with an aposematic or harmful model. In Batesian mimicry, the mimic is ...
The octopus is one of the most unexplainable animals on the planet, contested only by the platypus, the echidna, and the angler fish. ... For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...
The World Register of Marine Species lists these 23 genera: [1] 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)
Müllerian mimicry is a natural phenomenon in which two or more well-defended species, often foul-tasting and sharing common predators, have come to mimic each other's honest warning signals, to their mutual benefit. The benefit to Müllerian mimics is that predators only need one unpleasant encounter with one member of a set of Müllerian ...