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Octopus sasakii | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Cephalopoda |
Order: | Octopoda |
Family: | Octopodidae |
Genus: | Octopus |
Species: | O. sasakii
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Binomial name | |
Octopus sasakii |
Octopus sasakii is a species of octopus found only in salt water. This species is a taxon inquirendum. [1]
It is able to change its color. It moves forward by vigorously squeezing water in its cloak and pumping it through the siphon.
It is carnivorous with a diet consisting mainly of fish, crabs, lobsters and molluscs, which it catches with the suction cups on its tentacles.
It is parasitized by Dicyema shimantoense, which infects its renal appendages. [2]
The specific name honors the Japanese zoologist Madoka Sasaki who died in 1927. [3]