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From: duncan@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Shan D Duncan)
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Subject: Re: Octopus....fish, reptile or what?
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Date: Tue, 14-Jul-87 01:53:58 EDT
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In article <234@a.UUCP> dd@a.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes:
>In article <596@xn.LL.MIT.EDU>, avi@XN.LL.MIT.EDU (Avi Weiss) writes:
>> I was wondering whether an octopus is a fish or a reptile? Or prehaps
>> some other class? Correct answers would be most appreciated!!


>
>It's a highly developed mollusc, most closely related to the cuttlefish.
>
>dan davison Theoretical Biology, Los Alamos National Lab
>dd@lanl.gov
>(formerly at U of Houston)


And...

The class is Cephalopoda ("head-foots") also along with the cuttlefish, there
are the squids and nautilus.  The class is considered to be the most
evolutionary "advanced" of the invertebrates.  Around 600 species living, all
marine-- I believe.  An interesting note---octopus show very good parental
care and squid are believed to have a "better engineered/designed" eye then
vertebrates.  A whimsical notion by J. Diamond (sp?).  If everything was
created by design---then God is a squid :-).

						Shan