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Enteroctopus megalocyathus (Southern Red Octopus)

Synonyms: Enteroctopus juttingi; Octopus megalocyathus; Octopus patagonicus; Polypus brucei

Wikipedia Abstract

Enteroctopus megalocyathus, also known as the southern red octopus, is a medium-sized octopus, and the type species for the genus Enteroctopus.
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Predators

Lagenorhynchus australis (Peale's Dolphin)[1]
Sebastes capensis (Jacopever)[2]
Squalus acanthias (Common spiny)[3]
Zearaja chilensis (Yellownose skate)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Food Habits of the Peale's Dolphin, Lagenorhynchus australis; Review and New Information, Adrian C.M. Schiavini, R. Natalie P. Goodall, Ann-Katrien Lescrauwaet and Mariano Koen Alonso, REP. INT. WHAL. COMMN 47, 1997, p. 827-834
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3CephBase - Cephalopod (Octopus, Squid, Cuttlefish and Nautilus) Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0