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Macroctopus maorum (Maori octopus)

Synonyms: Octopus communis; Octopus flindersi; Octopus maorum

Wikipedia Abstract

Macroctopus maorum is known more commonly as the Maori octopus or the New Zealand octopus (wheke in Maori). They can also be known as Pinnoctopus cordiformis, is found in the waters around New Zealand and southern Australia. M. maorum is one of the largest and most aggressive octopus species living in the New Zealand and Australian waters. They feed mainly on crustaceans and fish, although they have a short life span the females lay thousands of eggs and are very protective of their eggs.
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Prey / Diet

Afurcagobius tamarensis (Tasman goby)[1]
Arenigobius bifrenatus (Bridled goby)[1]
Neoodax balteatus (Little weed whiting)[1]
Palaemon intermedius (striped river prawn)[1]
Petrolisthes elongatus (New Zealand half crab)[1]

Predators

Arctocephalus forsteri (Australasian Fur Seal)[2]
Carcharhinus brachyurus (Shark)[2]
Eudyptes pachyrhynchus (Fiordland Penguin)[3]
Globicephala melas (Long-finned Pilot Whale)[2]
Notothenia microlepidota (Black cod)[4]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Diet and feeding strategy of Octopus maorum in southeast Tasmania, Grubert, Mark A.; Wadley, Vicki A.; White, Robert W. G., Bulletin of Marine Science, Volume 65, Number 2, September 1999 , pp. 441-451
♦ 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.
♦ 3Yolanda Van Heezik (1990) Diets of yellow-eyed, Fiordland crested, and little blue penguins breeding sympatrically on Codfish Island, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 17:4, 543-548
♦ 4Malcolm R. Clark (1985): The food and feeding of seven fish species from the Campbell Plateau, New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 19:3, 339-363
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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