Octopus cirrhosus, Print, The octopus is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. Around 300 species are recognised, and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, the octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beak, with its mouth at the center point of the eight limbs (tentacle is used as an umbrella term for cephalopod limbs, however, within a teuthological context, arm is used to refer to such limbs while tentacle is reserved for feeding appendages not found on octopuses). The soft body can

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