From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Octopus kaurna
Octopus kaurna
Southern sand octopus tralian Bight and Tasmania.[2] It has an arm span of up
to 50 centimetres (20 in) with long, unusually thin tenta-
Scientific classification cles joined at the base by webbing and studded with small
Kingdom: Animalia suckers. Like most octopuses, they can change shape and
colour, and are often hard to spot as it spends day buried
Phylum: Mollusca
in the sand, preferring to venture out for food at night.
Class: Cephalopoda
Order: Octopoda References
Family: Octopodidae [1] "Octopus kaurna". Integrated Taxonomic
Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/
Genus: Octopus
SingleRpt/
Species: O. kaurna SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=556536.
Binomial name [2] "Species Octopus kaurna Stranks, 1990". Australian
Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment,
Octopus kaurna Water, Heritage and the Arts.
Stranks, 1990 [1]
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/
abrs/online-resources/fauna/afd/taxa/
octopus,
Octopus kaurna also known as the southern sand octopus
kaurna,
Octopus_kaurna. Retrieved January 29, 2010.
is an octopus native to the waters around the Great Aus-
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Categories:
• Octopuses
• Cephalopods of Australia
• Animals described in 1990
• Octopus stubs
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