- Octopus kaurna
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Southern sand octopus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Mollusca Class: Cephalopoda Order: Octopoda Family: Octopodidae Genus: Octopus Species: O. kaurna Binomial name Octopus kaurna
Stranks, 1990 [1]Octopus kaurna, also known as the southern sand octopus, is an octopus native to the waters around the Great Australian Bight and Tasmania.[2] It has an arm span of up to 50 centimetres (20 in) with long, unusually thin tentacles joined at the base by webbing and studded with small suckers. Like most octopuses, they can change shape and colour, and are often hard to spot as it spends day buried in the sand, preferring to venture out for food at night.
References
- ^ "Octopus kaurna". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=556536.
- ^ "Species Octopus kaurna Stranks, 1990". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/Octopus_kaurna. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
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