Octopus Temporal range: 323.2 ? 0  Ma Pre? ? O S D C P T J K Pg N Late Carboniferous ? recent
The common octopus , Octopus vulgaris .
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Cless:	Cephalopoda
Superorder:	Octopodiformes
Order:	Octopoda Leach , 1818 [1]
Suborders
Cirrina Incirrina
Synonyms
Octopoida Leach, 1817 [2]

An octopus (plural: octopuses , octopi , or octopodes ) is a cephalopod mollusc o the order Octopoda . It haes twa eyes an fower pairs o airms an, lik ither cephalopods, it is bilaterally symmetric . An octopus haes a haurd beak , wi its mooth at the center pynt o the arms. An octopus haes no internal or external skelet (althou some species hae a vestigial remnant o a shell inside their mantles ), allaein it tae squeeze through ticht places. ^[3] Octopuses are amang the maist intelligent an behaviourally flexible o aw invertebrates .

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