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Giant octopuses
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Mollusca
Class:Cephalopoda
Order:Octopoda
Family:Octopodidae
Subfamily:Octopodinae
Genus:Enteroctopus
Rochebrune & Mabille, 1889
Species


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Enteroctopus is an octopus genus, many of whose members are sometimes known as giant octopuses. However, one member of this genus is extremely small in size.
  • Genus Enteroctopus
  • North Pacific Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus dofleini
  • Enteroctopus juttingi *
  • Southern Giant Octopus, Enteroctopus magnificus
  • Enteroctopus megalocyathus
  • Enteroctopus membranaceus
  • Enteroctopus zealandicus
The species listed above with an asterisk (*) is questionable and needs further study to determine if it is a valid species or a synonym.

Giant octopuses are found in cooler waters than their tropical cousins. They feed on mainly fish, bivalves, and crustaceans.
Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Mollusca
Linnaeus, 1758

Classes

Caudofoveata
Aplacophora
Polyplacophora
Monoplacophora
Bivalvia
Scaphopoda
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
† Rostroconchia
† Helcionelloida
† ?Bellerophontida
The molluscs
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Cephalopoda
Cuvier, 1797

Orders

Subclass Nautiloidea
  • †Plectronocerida
  • †Ellesmerocerida
  • †Actinocerida
  • †Pseudorthocerida
  • †Endocerida
  • †Tarphycerida
  • †Oncocerida

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Octopoda
Leach, 1818

Suborders

†Pohlsepia (incertae sedis)
†Proteroctopus (incertae sedis)
†Palaeoctopus (incertae sedis)
Cirrina
Incirrina
Synonyms

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Octopodidae
Orbigny, 1840

Subfamilies and Genera
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Subfamilies and species

  • Genus Vulcanoctopus
  • Deepsea Vent Octopus, Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis
  • Subfamily

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Jules François Mabille (1831-1904) was a French malacologist who discovered several species found in the mollusc order.
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19th century - 20th century
1850s  1860s  1870s  - 1880s -  1890s  1900s  1910s
1886 1887 1888 - 1889 - 1890 1891 1892

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species is one of the basic units of biological classification. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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E. dofleini

Binomial name
Enteroctopus dofleini
(Wülker, 1910)

Synonyms
  • Octopus punctatus
    Gabb, 1862
  • Octopus dofleini
    Wülker, 1910
  • Polypus dofleini

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Bivalvia
Linnaeus, 1758

Subclasses

Anomalosdesmata
Cryptodonta
Heterodonta
Paleoheterodonta
Palaeotaxodonta
Pteriomorphia
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Bivalves are mollusks belonging to the class Bivalvia.
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crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods, comprising approximately 52,000 described species [1], and are usually treated as a subphylum [2].
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