🐙Giant Pacific octopus

Enteroctopus dofleini (Wülker, 1910)

ミズダコ・ミズタコ（水蛸、学名: Enteroctopus dofleini）は、軟体動物八腕類上目ミズダコ科に属するタコの一種で、世界最大のタコ。ミズダコの名は身が柔らかく水っぽいことに由来するという。別名オオダコ（大蛸）とも言う。北海道では地方名としてミズダコの雌を「マダコ」と呼ぶ地域があり、両種が混同される場合もある。

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≈ 4.4× your weight

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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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

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Body length

3 mmaximum recorded, total length

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Volume l

272 Laverage

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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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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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