What is Octopoda?
{{taxobox | fossil_range = 323 mya <small>[[Upper Carboniferous]] – present</small> | image = Octopus2.jpg | image_caption = The [[common octopus]], ''Octopus vulgaris''. | name = Octopoda | regnum = [[Animalia]] | phylum = [[Mollusca]] | classis = [[Cephalopoda]] | subclassis = [[Coleoidea]] | superordo = [[Octopodiformes]] | ordo = Octopoda | subdivision_ranks = [[Suborder]]s | subdivision = *[[Cirrina]] *[[Incirrina]]}} '''Octopoda''' is one of the largest [[order (biology)|orders]] which contain the common [[octopus]] and some other types.<ref>William Elford Leach, 1818. {{cite web|url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=82589 |title=ITIS Report: Octopoda Leach, 1818 |publisher=Itis.gov |date=2013-04-10 |accessdate=2014-02-04}}</ref><ref>[http://www.helsinki.fi/~mhaaramo/metazoa/protostoma/mollusca/cephalopoda/coleoidea.html Helsinki.fi], Mikko's Phylogeny Archive: Coleoidea&nbsp;– Recent cephalopods</ref> Fossils are rare, but they do have a fossil record starting in the later [[Carboniferous]]. Octopods are put into two suborders. One, the [[Incirrina]], is composed of the well-known ''[[Octopus]]'' of rocky [[shore]]s and [[coral reefs]] and its relatives. The other suborder, the [[Cirrina]], contains octopods whose tentacles are linked by an umbrella-like mantle, so their activity is rather different from the common octopus. [[File:CirrothaumaMurDraw2.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''Cirrothauma'', one of the Cirrina octopods. It lives in the deep sea at great depths]] == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Cephalopods]]