Octopoda

order of molluscs
Taxon taxon Q40152
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Summary

Octopoda is a taxon[1]. Octopoda ranks in the top 0.015% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (31,436 views/month, #30 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: order[3]
  • Parent taxon: Octopodiformes[4]
  • Taxon name: Octopoda[5]
  • Commons category: Octopoda[6]
  • Unicode character: 🐙[7]
  • Has part(s): brain[8]
  • Start time: -323200000-00-00T00:00:00Z[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Octopuses[10]
  • Main food source: Crustacea[11], Gastropoda[12], fish[13], Pectinidae[14], Polychaeta[15], copepod[16], Amphipoda[17], Isopoda[18]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[19], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[20], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[21], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Otto's encyclopedia[23]
  • This taxon is source of: octopus as food[24]
  • Taxon common name: åttearmete blekkspruter[25], Achtfüßer[26], hobotnice[27]
  • Different from: octopus as food[28], Octopus[29], occiput[30]
  • Uses: memory[31], mimicry[32], fine motor skill[33], physical object[34], chromatophore[35]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
  • Litter size: 80,000[37]

Body

Identifiers

Octopoda's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47458[38]. Octopoda's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6638[39]. Octopoda's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 2315[40]. Octopoda's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 459[41]. Octopoda's ITIS TSN is recorded as 82589[42].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Octopoda include Octopus card[43], a brand[44], in People's Republic of China[45], founded in 1997[46].

Why It Matters

Octopoda has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[47] Octopoda is known by 87 alternative names across languages and contexts.[48]

Entities named for Octopoda include Octopus card[43], a brand[44], in People's Republic of China[45], founded in 1997[46].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [44] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [45] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [46] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [47] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [48] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → octopus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: octopus, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289956338|octopus (#289956338)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  2. 7w ago · DanGFSouza · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subreddit → octopus
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Subreddit: octopus, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/144664362|octopus (#144664362)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5569|Subreddit Directory]] #m"
  3. 10w ago · WikiLucas00 · 2026-08-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Pronunciation audio → LL-Q33965 (sat)-Joy sagar Murmu-ᱚᱠᱴᱚᱯᱚᱥ.wav
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Pronunciation audio: LL-Q33965 (sat)-Joy sagar Murmu-ᱚᱠᱴᱚᱯᱚᱥ.wav"
  4. 11w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Petrovac
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q293226, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/627d4912166|details]])"
  5. 17w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0397612-chobotnice
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0397612-chobotnice, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259495|batch #259495]]"
  6. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Parent taxon → Octopodiformes
    Described by source → Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, Gujin Tushu Jicheng, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition +2
    Litter size → {'amount': '+80000'}
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ Yso id: 21893, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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