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    Octopus cyanea

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    Source-identified Octopus cyanea; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Day Octopus · klukoff · CC BY 4.0

    Classification in context

    Lineage

    1. LifeLife
    2. DomainEukaryota
    3. KingdomAnimalia
    4. PhylumMollusca
    5. ClassCephalopoda
    6. OrderOctopoda
    7. FamilyOctopodidae
    8. GenusOctopus
    9. SpeciesOctopus cyanea
    Advanced classification

    Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

    1. cellular organisms cellular root
    2. Eukaryota domain
    3. Opisthokonta clade
    4. Metazoa kingdom
    5. Eumetazoa clade
    6. Bilateria clade
    7. Protostomia clade
    8. Spiralia clade
    9. Lophotrochozoa clade
    10. Mollusca phylum
    11. Cephalopoda class
    12. Coleoidea subclass
    13. Octopodiformes superorder
    14. Octopoda order
    15. Incirrata suborder
    16. Octopodidae family
    17. Octopus genus
    18. Octopus cyanea species

    NCBI Taxonomy (2026-11-05 reconciled backbone) · Taxon source ↗

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    Principal members

    1 published profile in this branch.

    No direct child records in this snapshot.

    Within this taxon

    Published profiles

    Source-identified Octopus cyanea; Documentary organism photograph; source identification retained. Framed for display
    Species · Octopus

    Day Octopus

    Octopus cyanea

    The day octopus is a reef-dwelling cephalopod of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Unlike many octopuses that hunt mainly at night, it often searches …

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