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A Pacific Giant Octopus (Enteroctopus dolfeini) was observed off Point Piños, California, in August 2004 at a depth of 65 meters during sanctuary sea floor monitoring surveys us…🐙

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SpeciesOctopodaEnteroctopodidae
Invertebrates

🐙Giant Pacific octopus

Enteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910)

أخطبوط المحيط الهادئ العملاق (الاسم العلمي: Enteroctopus)، هو نوع من الرخويات يتبع جنس الأخطبوط العملاق ضمن رتبة الأخطبوطيات. يتوزع في شمال المحيط الهادئ عند ولاية كاليفورنيا وأوريغون وألاسكا وواشنطن وكولمبيا البريطانية وشمال اليابان وروسيا. يتكيف هذا النوع عند المياه الباردة الغنية بالأكسجين. يُمكن القول بأن هذا النوع من أكبر الأخطبوطيات على الإطلاق، يصل متوسط وزنه إلى 71 كيلو غرام.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Also called
giant octopus, North Pacific giant octopus, North Pacific Giant Octopus, Pacific Giant Octopus
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
272 kg
Body length
3 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Giant Pacific octopus

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
272 kgmaximum recorded
SeaLifeBase
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SeaLifeBase populates Weight independently of Length; the two are not guaranteed to describe the same individual. Verify before publishing.

Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Body length
3 mmaximum recorded, total length
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
272 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Giant Pacific octopus yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumMollusca
  3. ›classCephalopoda
  4. ›orderOctopoda
  5. ›familyEnteroctopodidae
  6. ›genusEnteroctopus
  7. ›speciesEnteroctopus dofleini
Full lineage
  1. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  2. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  3. suborderIncirrata
  4. superfamilyOctopodoidea
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  3. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  4. subclassColeoidea
  5. superorderOctopodiformes
  6. orderOctopoda
  7. suborderIncirrata
  8. superfamilyOctopodoidea
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문어 (ko), ośmiornica olbrzymia (pl), Osmonoh gigantický (sk), Pieuvre géante du Pacifique (fr), Гигантский осьминог (ru), Enteroctopus dofleini (es) … and 19 more languages
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A Pacific Giant Octopus (Enteroctopus dolfeini) was observed off Point Piños, California, in August 2004 at a depth of 65 meters during sanctuary sea floor monitoring surveys us…Dried octopus armsiNat photo 497571069
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