Octopus kaurna
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| Octopus kaurna Stranks, 1990 [1]
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The Southern Sand Octopus, Octopus kaurna, is an octopus native to the waters around the Great Australian Bight and Tasmania [2]. It has an arm span of up to 50 centimetres (20 in) with long, unusually thin, tentacles joined at the base by webbing and studded with small suckers. Like most octopuses, the it can change shape and colour, and is often hard to spot as it spends day buried in the sand, preferring to venture out for food at night.
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