Octopus sasakii

Octopus sasakii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda
Family: Octopodidae
Subfamily: Octopodinae
Genus: Octopus
Binomial name
Octopus sasakii

Octopus sasakii is a species of octopus found only in salt water.

Physical description

It is able to change its color. It moves forward by vigorously squeezing water in its cloak and pumping it through the siphon.

Diet

It is carnivorous with a diet consisting mainly of fish, crabs, lobsters and molluscs, which it catches the suction cups on its tentacles.

Parasitism

It is parasitized by Dicyema shimantoense, which infects its renal appendages.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Furuya, Hidetaka (Oct 2008). "Three new dicyemids from Octopus sasakii (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)". The Journal of Parasitology. 94 (5): 1071–1081. doi:10.1645/GE-1580.1. ISSN 0022-3395. PMID 18576860.


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