| A guess is that octopod is a backformation from the neuter plural octopoda, the name of the order containing octopuses. |
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| Among the damaged coral we saw free-swimming moray eels, octopuses, and several anemones with their resident clownfish. |
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| Giant cephalopods such as squid and octopuses are also a great source of sea-monster folklore. |
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| Cephalopods, which includes octopuses and squid, have seriously weird brains. |
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| I don't think people want things like kumquats or small octopuses in their drinks. |
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| The arms of the octopuses were still squirming and moving and flopping in every direction. |
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| The major group of mesozoans, the Dicyemida, live as microscopic parasites in the renal organs of squid and octopuses. |
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| Indeed, octopuses are frequently observed to exert force on objects with their arms aligned parallel to the line of force. |
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| With more than a 250 species, octopuses are members of an ancient group of animals called cephalopods. |
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| In squids, octopuses and cuttlefish, the pigment layer is below the photoreceptors, in an area of dense blood vessels. |
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| The circulatory systems of other vertebrates, as well as those of squids and octopuses, employ similar rubbery materials. |
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| What I failed to spot were pegasus sea-moths or any mimic octopuses, but they were there. |
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| Abalone belongs to the phylum Mollusca, a group which includes clams, scallops, sea slugs, octopuses, and squid. |
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| As it decays, it ties up dissolved oxygen, eventually causing creatures like shrimp, fish, crabs, and octopuses to suffocate. |
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| In turn, the sea anemone protects its host from predators such as octopuses and other crabs. |
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| Likewise, some crabs use sea anemones to reppel octopuses and chimpanzees throw rocks or branches they have broken to shake fruit off trees. |
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| Local fishermen reported the appearance of large numbers of octopuses. |
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| A mythological sea, or Neptune's kingdom, it is the privileged shelter of mermaids, giant octopuses and other phantasmagoric creatures. |
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| The coleoids include modern squids, cuttlefish, octopuses, and the argonauts or paper-nautilus, together with extinct groups such as the belemnites. |
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| The octopuses I came to know were strong but gentle and the suction of their suckers tasting my skin pulled me like an alien's kiss. |
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| There is a scene by Hokusai, for example, involving a naked girl and two octopuses. |
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| And octopuses, which are color blind, actually out-chameleon the chameleon. |
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| The Kingdom Animalia, from sponges to elephants, velvet worms to octopuses, mud dragons to tardigrades, is the best studied and most widely appreciated of the kingdoms. |
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| Make sure you check everywhere in Pirate Ship's Grave for octopuses cause they like to hide. |
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| Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses. |
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| These species are known as the octopods and include, cuttlefish, squid, nautiluses and octopuses. |
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| Non commercially important members of this group include chitons, limpets and octopuses. |
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| The rocky reefs and the small caverns formed within them are home to groupers, moray and conger eels, scorpionfish, many octopuses and the occasional spiny lobster. |
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| Among their more unusual behavior, the octopuses employ a unique defense mechanism by tearing off the tentacles of passing Portuguese man-of-war jellyfish. |
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| It's a food chain that ranges from giant fields and plumes of the basic building block bacteria to curious octopuses and swarms of shrimp and crabs and red-tipped worms. |
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| Like squids and octopuses, cuttlefishes have a funnel for jet propulsion, but unlike the other two, they also have an internal, oval-shaped bony chamber that fills with gas. |
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| Soon, the octopuses learned to approach the feeders and avoid the irritators. |
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| Named after the famous Hawaiian KONA HEADS from which they are derived, these lures are fanciful imitations of squids and small octopuses. |
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| We also met a huge porcupine fish, a large sleeping parrot-fish, 2 octopuses and many soldiers-fish. |
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| Fins, masks, snorkels, octopuses, wetsuits, computers and accessories, it's all there from the leading manufacturers at competitive prices ! |
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| Molluscs include widely different body types, from crawling snails to sessile, filter-feeding clams to swimming octopuses. |
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| Siphon: A tube-like structure in certain marine animals, such as clams and octopuses, allowing the passage of seawater. |
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| When the tides are low, they take the opportunity to hunt down the octopuses hidden in the cracks and crevices of the rock. |
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| Several scorpion-fish were also spotted, as well as three octopuses and several schools of reef fish. |
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| There are shrimp, crabs, sea anemones that look like Venus flytraps, as well as red octopuses, sea stars, fish, and more. |
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| These included descriptions of sea monsters, including huge whales, sharks, sea snakes, giant squid and octopuses. |
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| Cephalopoda such as squid, cuttlefish, and octopuses are among the neurologically most advanced of all invertebrates. |
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| The meals are essentialy composed of products of the sea, fresh fish, lobsters, crabs, octopuses, vegetables and tropicals fruits and of tasty desserts elabored by Dominique your stewardess. |
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| I saw so many different fish including angel sharks, big groupers, octopuses and millions of damsel fish. |
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| Experiments at Seattle aquarium prove that octopuses can tell individual humans apart – even when the people are dressed identically – just by looking up at them through the water. |
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| Researchers asked one set of people always to feed a group of octopuses when they saw them, and another set of people to only touch each octopus with a bristly stick. |
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| If you miss the opportunity in Ketchikan, Dive Alaska offers trips across the Gulf of Alaska in Seward's Resurrection Bay, where you might see octopuses, wolf eels and sea otters. |
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| From robotic octopuses to moth-eye solar cells, biomimicry shaped the way that engineering challenges were addressed, heralding great promise for the future of technology. |
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| Did you know that squids and octopuses are present-day cephalopods? |
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| Squids have an internal shell, whereas octopuses have no shell at all. |
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| They belong to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. |
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| Other commonly eaten molluscs include octopuses and squids, whelks, oysters, and scallops. |
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| All octopuses are venomous, but only a few species pose a significant threat to humans. |
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| For the little ones Sea Life London Aquarium Wonder at sharks, stingrays, clownfish, octopuses and so much more. |
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| When he arrived at Hatfield he had yet to develop his hectocotylus, a modified tentacle that male octopuses use to deliver sperm to their mates. |
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| In the deepest parts of the lobsters are common, while among the rocks and Posidonia are numerous, according to the period, molluscs cephalopods like octopuses and squid. |
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| For example, new evidence shows that many present-day deep-sea octopuses at more northern latitudes originated from common ancestors that still survive in the Southern Ocean. |
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| In Canada, octopuses are found in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. |
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| Other IPY studies reveal interesting evolutionary trends such as many present-day deep-sea octopuses having originated from common ancestor species that still survive in the Southern Ocean. |
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| Schools of butterfly fish, batfish: the reef is full of life. Two octopuses, box-fish, filefish, parrots, one moray, one scorpion-fish and one trumpet-fish. |
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| She has been hunting down the octopuses in Port Sud-Est for 40 years now. |
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| Snorkelers might spy sea urchins, octopuses, sea cucumbers, starfish, moon snails, wavy-top snails, clams, perhaps even sand dollars and pipe fish. |
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| Important animals that live in European seas are zooplankton, molluscs, echinoderms, different crustaceans, squids and octopuses, fish, dolphins, and whales. |
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| Readers will see high-quality, up-close images of Giant Pacific Octopuses, Wolf Eels and Decorated Warbonnets as they thrive in their natural habitats. |
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