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Species of octopus
Octopus superciliosus (commonly the frilled pygmy octopus )
[1] is a species of octopus.
[2] It was first described in 1832 by
Jean René Constant Quoy and
Joseph Paul Gaimard
[3] based on a specimen found off
Victoria during the 1826 to 1829 voyage of the
Astrolabe .
[4]
O. superciliosus is described as a pygmy species.
[5] It is small, with a mantle length of up to 26 millimeters and a total length of up to 94 millimeters. It is white and cream to light brown, with an egg-shaped mantle and large eyes.
[4]
O. superciliosus is found in southeastern Australia, ranging from the central
Great Australian Bight to
Twofold Bay in
New South Wales .
[6] It in an inshore species,
[4] with recorded depths from zero to 69 meters.
[5] O. superciliosus lives in sandy or mud bottoms, or among
sponges or
polyzoans .
[4]
Female O. superciliosus lay large eggs, around 8-11 millimeters in length.
[4] Clutch sizes are unknown, but estimated at 50 to 100 eggs. Hatchlings are benthic and 4 to 5 millimeters in length.
[6]
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e Stranks, Timothy N. (1998). "The Systematic and Nomenclatural Status of the Octopodinae Described from Australia (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)". In Voss, Nancy A.; Vecchione, Michael; Toll, Roland B.; Sweeney, Michael J. (eds.).
Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods Volume II (PDF) . Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. Vol. 586. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press . pp. 277–599.
doi :
10.5479/si.00810282.586.277 .
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b Norman, M. D.; Finn, J. K. (2016). "Family Octopodidae". In Jereb, Patrizia; Roper, Clyde F. E.; Norman, Mark D.; Finn, Julian K. (eds.).
Cephalopods of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Cephalopod Species Known to Date . FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. Vol. 3: Octopods and Vampire Squids. Rome, Italy:
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .
ISBN
978-92-5-107989-8 .
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b Stranks, Timothy N. (1996).
"Biogeography of Octopus species (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from southeastern Australia" (PDF) . American Malacological Bulletin . 12 (1/2): 145–151.