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Octopuses - Photo (c) Sophia Volzke, all rights reserved, uploaded by Sophia Volzke C
Octopuses (Order Octopoda) Info
The octopus (/ˈɒktəpəs/ or ~/pʊs/) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda. Around 300 species are recognised and the order is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, the octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beak, with its mouth at the centre point of the arms (which are sometimes mistakenly called "tentacles"). The soft body can rapidly alter its shape, enabling octopuses to squeeze thr (Wikipedia)
Yellow Morel - Photo (c) k_eper, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) CC
Yellow Morel (Morchella esculenta) Info
Morchella esculenta, (commonly known as common morel, morel, yellow morel, true morel, morel mushroom, and sponge morel) is a species of fungus in the Morchellaceae family of the Ascomycota. It is one of the most readily recognized of all the edible mushrooms and highly sought after. Each fruit body begins as a tightly compressed, grayish sponge with lighter ridges, and expands to form a large yellowish sponge with large pits and ridg (Wikipedia)
Sixweeks Grass - Photo (c) Matt Lavin, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC
Sixweeks Grass (Festuca octoflora) Info
Festuca octoflora (formerly Vulpia octoflora'), also called six-weeks fescue, pullout grass, sixweeks fescue, eight-flower sixweeks grass, eight-flowered fescue; is an annual plant in the grass family (Poaceae). The common name "six week fescue" is because it supplies about 6 weeks of cattle forage after a rain. (Wikipedia)
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Eyespot Puffer (Dichotomyctere ocellatus) Info
Dichotomyctere ocellatus (syn. Tetraodon biocellatus), commonly the figure 8 puffer or eyespot puffer, is a pufferfish found in freshwater in Southeast Asia. It is known from the lower reaches of the Mekong (Cambodia), the Peninsular Malaysia as well as Borneo (Sarawak, Kalimantan). (Wikipedia)