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Cirrothauma murrayi, the blind cirrate octopus, [2] is a nearly blind octopus whose eyes can sense light, but not form images. It has been found worldwide, usually 1,500 to 4,500 metres (4,900 to 14,800 ft) beneath the ocean's surface. [3] [4] Like other cirrates, it has an internal shell, muscular fins for swimming, and a web connecting the ...
Foster was also a producer via his involvement with the Sea Change Project, [12] and his wife, Indian environmental journalist Swati Thiyagarajan, was production manager for the film. [ 13 ] The film, which Foster began filming in 2018, was years in the making and was the first South African nature documentary to be a Netflix Original.
Ellie Octopus (performed by Sarah Lyle) is a purple octopus that lives in the Big Blue Sea. In her first appearance in "An Octopus Hug", Sweetpea Sue was afraid of octopuses until she met Ellie. The Pajanimals would often go to her for bedtime advice when they ride Squacky's bed to her. Ellie would always give the Pajanimals "octopus huggles".
The species is known from 48 specimens. [5] It is most similar to its sister taxon, Cirroctopus mawsoni; [1] however, C. mawsoni's ventral pigmentation is lighter, and the two species have been found in very different areas (C. mawsoni is only known in waters near Antarctica). [5] [6] This octopus lives near cold seeps and seamounts. [6]
Octopus hummelincki Adam, 1936 – bumblebee two-spot octopus or Caribbean two-spot octopus [5] Octopus huttoni Benham, 1943; Octopus incella Kaneko & Kubodera, 2007; Octopus insularis Leite & Haimovici, 2008 [6] Octopus jeraldi Pratt, Baldwin & Vecchione, 2020 [7] Octopus joubini Robson, 1929 - Atlantic pygmy octopus or small-egg Caribbean ...
An octopus (pl.: octopuses or octopodes [a]) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (/ ɒ k ˈ t ɒ p ə d ə /, ok-TOP-ə-də [3]).The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.
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.
An octopus in a zoo. Due to their intelligence, cephalopods are commonly protected by animal testing regulations that do not usually apply to invertebrates. In the UK from 1993 to 2012, the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) was the only invertebrate protected under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. [48]