octopus

     

Pohlsepia (incertae seis) †Proteroctopus (incertae sedis) †Palaeoctopus (incertae sedis) Cirrina Incirrina

Trivia about octopus

  • This 8-armed sea creature doesn't always show its true colors; in fact, it changes colors when frightened
  • The Pacific species of this has an arm span of up to 33 feet
  • This mollusk captures its prey with its 8 arms, bites it with its beak & injects poison from its salivary glands
  • This relative of the squid & cuttlefish is shy & can change its color to hide in the coral
  • Marine mollusk good at arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm to arm combat
  • You'll need some white wine, garlic & this 8-armed cephalopod to make the French dish Poulpe a la Provencale
  • Scientists say this relative of the squid has the most highly developed brain among invertebrates
  • Eye exactly 8 tentacles on a marine mollusk & you're looking at one of these animals
  • Ranging in size from 2 inches in the Atlantic to 30 feet in the Pacific, they have 8 muscular tentacles
  • Dudley, who lives in the Seattle Aquarium, aspires to the largest of these 8-armed creatures in captivity
  • This mollusk, also called a devilfish, may inject a poison to paralyze prey
  • The blue-ringed variety of this sea mollusk has a venom so potent it can kill a human being in a matter of minutes
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  • The Pacific species of this animal can have an arm span more than 20 feet long
  • Swimming Down Under, you don't need 8 reasons to stay away from the blue-ringed this, just 1--its bite can paralyze & kill you
  • Frank Norris titled his 1901 novel about a railroad that's strangling farmers after this marine mollusk