Octopoda facts for kids
Quick facts for kids OctopodaTemporal range: 323 mya Upper Carboniferous – present
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Octopods are the order which contains the common octopus and some other types. Fossila are rare, but they do have a fossil record starting in the later Carboniferous.
Octopods are put into two suborders. One, the Incirrina, is composed of the well-known Octopus of rocky shores and coral reefs and its relatives. The other suborder, the Cirrina, contains octopods whose tentacles are linked by an umbrella-like mantle, so their activity is rather different from the common octopus.
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Images for kids
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A giant Pacific octopus at Echizen Matsushima Aquarium, Japan
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Diagram of octopus from side, with gills, funnel, eye, ocellus (eyespot), web, arms, suckers, hectocotylus and ligula labelled.
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A finned Grimpoteuthis species with its atypical octopus body plan
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Octopus with open siphon. The siphon is used for respiration, waste disposal and discharging ink.
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Eye of common octopus
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Female giant Pacific octopus guarding strings of eggs
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Octopus paralarva, a planktonic hatchling
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Veined octopus eating a crab
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Octopuses swim with their arms trailing behind.
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Movements of the finned species Cirroteuthis muelleri
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Octopus opening a container by unscrewing its cap
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Warning display of greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata)
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The octopuses evolved from the Muensterelloidea (fossil pictured) in the Jurassic period.
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Minoan clay vase with octopus decoration, c. 1500 BC
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Pen and wash drawing of an imagined colossal octopus attacking a ship, by the malacologist Pierre de Montfort, 1801
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Flexible biomimetic 'Octopus' robotics arm. The BioRobotics Institute, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, 2011
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See also
In Spanish: Octopoda para niños
