Species Profile
Octopus
Octopus
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Octopus lives in marine crevices.
It is carnivorous and solitary.
Known for camouflage.
Size & Structure
01
Soft body
02
Eight sucker-bearing arms
03
Large eyes
04
Ink sac present
Octopus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Highly developed
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Absent
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Predator
Controls crustaceans
Reef ecosystem role
Economic Importance
Edible seafood
Neurobiology research
Fisheries importance