Animalia > Mollusca > Cephalopoda > Octopoda > Enteroctopodidae > Enteroctopus > Enteroctopus magnificus

Enteroctopus magnificus (Southern Giant Octopus)

Synonyms: Octopus magnificus

Wikipedia Abstract

Enteroctopus magnificus, also known as the southern giant octopus, is a large octopus in the genus Enteroctopus. It is native to the waters off Namibia and South Africa.
View Wikipedia Record: Enteroctopus magnificus

Prey / Diet

Predators

Arctocephalus gazella (Antarctic Fur Seal)[1]
Arctocephalus pusillus (Brown Fur Seal)[1]
Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus (South African fur seal)[3]
Centrophorus squamosus (Nilsons deepsea dogfish)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2R. Villanueva , Diet and mandibular growth of Octopus magnificus (Cephalopoda), South African Journal of Marine Science, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1993, pages 121-126
♦ 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