Octopus vulgaris
<em>Octopus vulgaris</em> Cuvier, 1797
Octopus vulgaris swimming. Bag-like body, with warty surface. Eight equal arms with two rows of suckers each. Arms linked basally by web. Palma aquarium, Mallorca, Spain. June 2009.
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M. Brekkevold http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunkwill42/3658339290/
Octopus vulgaris. Surface varies, can be raised into pronounced lobes. December 2011. Sublittoral. Setúbal, Portugal.
Octopus vulgaris. Surface varies, can be flattened warts. Eyes positioned laterally when dorsal eye mounds lowered. November 2011. Sublittoral. Setúbal, Portugal.
Octopus vulgaris. Eyes raised on dorsal protrusions. Lateral view. Suckers in two rows on each tentacle. June 2010. Sublittoral. Setúbal, Portugal.
Octopus vulgaris. Pale orange exhalent respiratory funnel fully extended from ventral opening of mantle cavity. Octopus attached to swimmer when closely examined; not an unprovoked attack, and no injury incurred. July 2006. Keffalonia, Greece.
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