> [!summary]- Classification
**Kingdom**:: [Animalia](Animalia.md)
**Phylum**:: [Mollusca](Mollusca.md)
**Class**:: [Cephalopoda](Cephalopoda.md)
**Subclass**::
**Order**:: Octopoda
**Suborder**::
**Superfamily**::
**Family**:: Octopodidae
**Subfamily**:: Octopodinae
**Genus**:: Octopus
**Species**:: O. vulgaris
**Vernacular**:: Common octopus
## Photos
*[128 - 2023-05-17 - Pirate des Caraïbes - Epidaurus - Greece](128%20-%202023-05-17%20-%20Pirate%20des%20Caraïbes%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - I had the opportunity to picture a lot of different octopus, but this is my best picture so far! It wasn't hide, as it saw us, it started to move and stoped here and I had minutes to configure my lights, do the focus and shoot that picture. Very cooperative.*
*[128 - 2023-05-17 - Pirate des Caraïbes - Epidaurus - Greece](128%20-%202023-05-17%20-%20Pirate%20des%20Caraïbes%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - Then it left, and I pictured this to show how an octopus is swimming.*
*[136 - 2023-07-23 - La Balise - Saint Cyr - France](136%20-%202023-07-23%20-%20La%20Balise%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md) - The octopus can sometimes be really well camouflaged. We can see that it has its skin's head spiked. It's because he feel a threat. Around: [Parazoanthus axinellae - Yellow encrusting anemone](Parazoanthus%20axinellae%20-%20Yellow%20encrusting%20anemone.md), [Lithophyllum spp. - Stone-leaf](Lithophyllum%20spp.%20-%20Stone-leaf.md), [Crambe crambe - Orange-red encrusting sponge](Crambe%20crambe%20-%20Orange-red%20encrusting%20sponge.md), some other algae...*
*[136 - 2023-07-23 - La Balise - Saint Cyr - France](136%20-%202023-07-23%20-%20La%20Balise%20-%20Saint%20Cyr%20-%20France.md) - We often see the octopus hidden in its burrow, just with its eyes and its inhaling siphon (on the right) out.*
*[139 - 2023-11-12 - Les Rosiers - La Ciotat - France](139%20-%202023-11-12%20-%20Les%20Rosiers%20-%20La%20Ciotat%20-%20France.md) - Better sight of its siphon on the right, that were open. Always this characteristic eye with the pupil in a line.*
*[126 - 2023-05-16 - Delta - Epidaurus - Greece](126%20-%202023-05-16%20-%20Delta%20-%20Epidaurus%20-%20Greece.md) - This is way of ordering the shells is typical of an octopus burrow. They hide theirselves using differents shells and remains. If you see one, start searching for the animal that should be in, or around. It also, mostly, can be abandoned.*
## Notes
## References
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus_(genus)
- https://doris.ffessm.fr/Especes/Octopus-vulgaris-Poulpe-commun-847/(rOffset)/11