Octopus cyanea: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Octopoda
- Family
- Octopodidae
- Genus
- Octopus
- Species
- Octopus cyanea
- Scientific Name
- Octopus cyanea
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Octopus cyanea
Octopus cyanea, also known as the big blue octopus or day octopus, is an octopus in the family Octopodidae. It occurs in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans, from Hawaii to the eastern coast of Africa. O. cyanea grows to 16 cm in mantle length with arms to at least 80 cm. This octopus was described initially by the British zoologist John Edward Gray in 1849; the type specimen was collected off Australia and is at the Natural History Museum in London.
...Octopus cyanea in languages:
- Arabic
- اخطبوط
- Arabic
- أخطبوط أزرق كبير
- Catalan
- Pop azulòn
- Chinese
- 藍章
- Czech
- Chobotnice modrá
- Dutch
- Grote blauwe octopus
- English
- Day Octopus
- English
- Big Blue Octopus
- English
- Reef Octopus
- English
- Cyane's Octopus
- English
- Common Reef Octopus
- French
- Gros poulpe bleu
- French
- Poulpe de récifs commun
- French
- Pieuvre
- French
- Poulpe diurne
- French
- Poulpe de récif
- German
- Großer Blauer Krake
- German
- Riffkrake
- Hebrew
- תמנון עינוני
- Hebrew
- תמנון שונית
- Italian
- Polpo del reef indopacifico
- Italian
- Polpo del reef
- Italian
- Polpo indopacifico
- Japanese
- ワモンダコ
- Japanese
- ワモンダコ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Octopus alecto
- Octopus americanus
- Octopus argus
- Octopus australis
- Octopus balboai
- Octopus berenice
- Octopus berrima
- Octopus bimaculatus
- Octopus bimaculoides
- Octopus bocki
- Octopus briareus
- Octopus bulbus
- Octopus californicus
- Octopus chierchiae
- Octopus conispadiceus
- Octopus cyanea
- Octopus diminutus
- Octopus djinda
- Octopus favonius
- Octopus fitchi
- Octopus gardineri
- Octopus gorgonus
- Octopus harpedon
- Octopus hattai
- Octopus hawaiiensis
- Octopus hongkongensis
- Octopus hubbsorum
- Octopus humilis
- Octopus hummelincki
- Octopus incella
- Octopus insularis
- Octopus jeraldi
- Octopus joubini
- Octopus kaharoa
- Octopus kapalae
- Octopus kaurna
- Octopus laqueus
- Octopus mariles
- Octopus maya
- Octopus microphthalmus
- Octopus micropyrsus
- Octopus micros
- Octopus mimus
- Octopus minor
- Octopus mutilans
- Octopus nanus
- Octopus occidentalis
- Octopus oculifer
- Octopus oliveri
- Octopus pallidus
- Octopus parvus
- Octopus penicillifer
- Octopus pumilus
- Octopus pyrum
- Octopus rubescens
- Octopus salutii
- Octopus sanctaehelenae
- Octopus selene
- Octopus sinensis
- Octopus stictochrus
- Octopus superciliosus
- Octopus taganga
- Octopus tayrona
- Octopus tehuelchus
- Octopus tetricus
- Octopus veligero
- Octopus verrucosus
- Octopus vitiensis
- Octopus vulgaris
- Octopus warringa
- Octopus wolfi
- Octopus zonatus