Enteroctopus
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Enteroctopus is an octopus genus whose members are sometimes known as giant octopuses.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassCephalopoda
- OrderOctopoda
- FamilyEnteroctopodidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded8,159
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 29
- With media
- 50
- Family
- Enteroctopodidae
- Collections
- CAS, MNHN
- Recorded in
- United States
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Etymology
- Description
- Species
- Type species
- Distribution
- Size
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- Footnotes
- References
Enteroctopus is an octopus genus whose members are sometimes known as giant octopuses.
== Etymology == The generic name Enteroctopus was created by Alphonse Tremeau de Rochebrune and Jules François Mabille in 1887 and published in 1889, joining Ancient Greek 'gut' and , thus 'octopus [with arms similar to] guts.'
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Enteroctopus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.