Octopus vitiensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Cephalopoda
- Order
- Octopoda
- Family
- Octopodidae
- Genus
- Octopus
- Species
- Octopus vitiensis
- Scientific Name
- Octopus vitiensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Octopus vitiensis
Octopus vitiensis, or the bighead octopus, is a species of octopus provisionally placed in the genus Octopus. It was described by William Evans Hoyle in 1885 based on a specimen found in reefs in Kandavu, Fiji during a voyage of HMS Challenger.
...Octopus vitiensis in languages:
- English
- Bighead Octopus
- German
- Großkopfkrake
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
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- Octopus hongkongensis
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- Octopus humilis
- Octopus hummelincki
- Octopus incella
- Octopus insularis
- Octopus jeraldi
- Octopus joubini
- Octopus kaharoa
- Octopus kapalae
- Octopus kaurna
- Octopus laqueus
- Octopus mariles
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- Octopus microphthalmus
- Octopus micropyrsus
- Octopus micros
- Octopus mimus
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- 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
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