Common octopus
Octopus vulgaris
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Octopus vulgaris
- Class
- Cephalopod
- Order
- Octopus
- Family
- Octopodidae
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Size
- Small (under 1 m)
- Active
- By night
- Continent
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America
- Habitat
- Ocean
- Conservation status
- Least concern
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- It has three hearts and blue blood, which carries oxygen with copper instead of iron.
- A female guards her eggs for weeks without feeding and dies soon after they hatch.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q651361 · All animals · All entries