Octopus

Octopus; Temporal range: 323.2 – 0 Ma PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Carboniferous – recent
	The common octopus, Octopus vulgaris.
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Cless:	Cephalopoda
Superorder:	Octopodiformes
Order:	Octopoda; Leach, 1818
Suborders
	Cirrina; Incirrina;
Synonyms
	Octopoida; Leach, 1817;

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.^[3] Octopuses are amang the maist intelligent an behaviourally flexible o aw invertebrates.

References

↑ "ITIS Report: Octopoda Leach, 1818". Itis.gov. 10 Apryle 2013. Retrieved 4 Februar 2014.
↑ Helsinki.fi, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Coleoidea – Recent cephalopods
↑ "Facts About Octopuses". Archived frae the original on 14 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 22 Apryle 2014.

[1] "ITIS Report: Octopoda Leach, 1818". Itis.gov. 10 Apryle 2013. Retrieved 4 Februar 2014.

[2] Helsinki.fi, Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Coleoidea – Recent cephalopods

[3] "Facts About Octopuses". Archived frae the original on 14 Apryle 2014. Retrieved 22 Apryle 2014.

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