DUMBO OCTOPUS
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Grimpoteuthis
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Grimpoteuthis
HABITAT: GRIMPOTEUTHIS SPP, KNOWN AS THE DEEPEST LIVING OF ALL OCTOPUS SPECIES, LIVE ON THE BOTTOM, OR HOVERING JUST SLIGHTLY ABOVE THE SEAFLOOR AT DEPTHS OF DEPTHS OF 3000 TO 4000 M (9800 TO 13000 FT), WITH SOME LIVING AS DEEP AS 7,000 M (23000 FT) BELOW SEA LEVEL.
Location: Have been found in New Zealand and Australia, Monterey Bay, California; Oregon, Philippines and in Papua, New Guinea.
Location: Have been found in New Zealand and Australia, Monterey Bay, California; Oregon, Philippines and in Papua, New Guinea.
3 Things The Organism Makes Within Its Body
- Like most organisms in the ocean, the dumbo octopus makes insulin.
- Carbon Dioxide
- Mucus
What They Eat/How They Get Food
- The Dumbo Octopuss eats worms, crustaceans and bivalves of the sea. A cool fact about a Dumbo Octopus is that it does not chew its food and it has no teeth.
- The Dumbo Octopus catches its prey by wrapping its tentacles around its prey and strangling it. Then the Octopus swallows it whole.
The Dumbo Octopus is a Eukaryote
- The organism has animal cells and that is a part of eukaryote cell that makes up many tissues in animals.
- It cells contain a nucleus and other structures.
- The organisms cells include a variety of membrane-bound structures, collectively referred to as the endomembrane system.
Abiotic vs. Biotic
- Oil spills can harm its environment(abiotic). People should start looking for leaks around equipment before any of it touch the ocean.
- Any pollution can harm too(abiotic).
- Littering in sewers and oceans(biotic). We can start throwing trash into their rightful places.
- Humans harm their environment by wasting gas, oil, plastic products, and electricity(biotic).
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