Author Charles Bevalet Description English: Eledone, Octopus vulgaris (Lamarck)
Subject: Octopuses, Common octopus Tag: Fish
Date 1868
Source/Photographer
English: Fibuier, Louis (1868) Ocean World : Being a Descriptive History of the Sea and its Living Inhabitants, New York: D. Appleton & Co.
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_50387_Eledone,_Octopus_vulgaris_(Lamarck).jpeg
The common octopus (Octopus vulgaris) is a mollusc belonging to the faimily Octopodidae. Octopus vulgaris is found in the eastern Atlantic extends from the Mediterranean Sea and the southern coast of England to at least Senegal in Africa. It also occurs off the Azores, Canary Islands, and Cape Verde Islands. The species is also common in the Western Atlantic.