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Eledone Nigra
''Eledone nigra'' is a little-known species of octopus described from one male and six females which were taken in Luderitz Bay, Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ... and has only been recorded subsequently in 1941, 1983 and 1991, all from Luderitz Bay.Villanueva, R & Sanchez P. (1993) Cephalopods of the Benguela Current off Namibia; New additions and consideration on the genus ''Lycoteuthis'', J. Nat. Hist. 27 pp15-46 References nigra Molluscs described in 1910 {{octopus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Evans Hoyle
Dr William Evans Hoyle FRSE (28 January 1855 – 7 February 1926) was a noted British zoologist. A specialist in deep sea creatures he worked on classification and illustrations from the Challenger Expedition from 1882 to 1888. Life Hoyle was born in Manchester the son of William Jennings Hoyle, an engraver. He was educated at Owens College and at Exeter College and Christ Church, Oxford where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1877, Master of Arts in 1882 and a Doctor of Science, he was also Member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was the Director of the Manchester Museum from 1889 to 1909 and then was the first director of the National Museum of Wales from 1909 up to his retirement in 1926. Trained as a medical anatomist, Hoyle is most famous for his monographic studies on cephalopods from major exploring expeditions of his era including the Challenger, the Albatross, the British National Antarctic Expedition and the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octopus
An octopus ( : octopuses or octopodes, see below for variants) is a soft-bodied, eight- limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda (, ). The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids. Like other cephalopods, an octopus is bilaterally symmetric with two eyes and a beaked mouth at the center point of the eight limbs. The soft body can radically alter its shape, enabling octopuses to squeeze through small gaps. They trail their eight appendages behind them as they swim. The siphon is used both for respiration and for locomotion, by expelling a jet of water. Octopuses have a complex nervous system and excellent sight, and are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse of all invertebrates. Octopuses inhabit various regions of the ocean, including coral reefs, pelagic waters, and the seabed; some live in the intertidal zone and others at abyssal depths. Most species grow quickly, mature earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. Although it does not border Zimbabwe, less than 200 metres (660 feet) of the Botswanan right bank of the Zambezi River separates the two countries. Namibia gained independence from South Africa on 21 March 1990, following the Namibian War of Independence. Its capital and largest city is Windhoek. Namibia is a member state of the United Nations (UN), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU) and the Commonwealth of Nations. The driest country in sub-Saharan Africa, Namibia has been inhabited since pre-historic times by the San, Damara and Nama people. Around the 14th century, immigrating Bantu peoples arrived as part of the Bantu expansion. Since then, the Bantu groups, the largest being the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eledone
''Eledone'' is a genus of octopuses forming the only genus in the family Eledonidae. It is mainly distributed in the northern and southern Atlantic Ocean, with one species, '' E. palari'', described from the southwestern Pacific Ocean and eastern Indian Ocean in waters around Indonesia and Australia and another, ''E. microsicya'', from the western Indian Ocean. One species, ''E. thysanophora'', is now regarded as a synonym of the brush-tipped octopus (''Eledone schultzei''). Species The following species are currently classified as being in the genus ''Eledone'': * '' Eledone caparti'' Adam, 1950 * ''Eledone cirrhosa'' (Lamarck, 1798) – curled octopus * ''Eledone gaucha'' Haimovici, 1988 * ''Eledone massyae'' Voss, 1964 – combed octopus * ''Eledone microsicya'' * (Rochebrune, 1884) * ''Eledone moschata'' (Lamarck, 1798) – musky octopus * ''Eledone nigra'' (Hoyle, 1910) * ''Eledone palari'' Lu and Stranks, 1992 – spongetip octopus * ''Eledone schultzei ''Eled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
