Octopus sasakii

{{Short description|Species of mollusc}} {{more footnotes|date=May 2013}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Octopus sasakii | authority = Iw. Taki, 1942<ref name = WoRMS>{{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342025 | title = ''Octopus sasakii'' Taki, 1942 | accessdate = 29 January 2018 | publisher = Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee | work = World Register of Marine Species}}</ref> | synonyms = }}

'''''Octopus sasakii''''' is a species of octopus found only in salt water. This species is a taxon inquirendum.<ref name = WoRMS/>

== Physical description == It is able to change its color. It moves forward by vigorously squeezing water in its cloak and pumping it through the siphon.

== Diet == It is carnivorous with a diet consisting mainly of fish, crabs, lobsters and molluscs, which it catches with the suction cups on its tentacles.

== Parasitism == It is parasitized by ''Dicyema shimantoense'', which infects its renal appendages.<ref>{{Cite journal|title = Three new dicyemids from Octopus sasakii (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopoda)|journal = The Journal of Parasitology|date = Oct 2008|issn = 0022-3395|pmid = 18576860|pages = 1071–1081|volume = 94|issue = 5|doi = 10.1645/GE-1580.1|first = Hidetaka|last = Furuya}}</ref>

==Name== The specific name honors the Japanese zoologist Madoka Sasaki who died in 1927.<ref name = Petymol>{{cite web | url = http://www.bemon.loven.gu.se/petymol.s.html | title = Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names. S. | accessdate = 4 March 2018 | publisher = Hans G. Hansson}}</ref>

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==External links== * [https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=556540 ITIS Report: ''Octopus sasakii''] — ''the Island Sea of Japan''.

Category:Octopodidae Category:Molluscs of Japan Category:Molluscs of the Pacific Ocean Category:Marine molluscs of Asia Category:Taxa named by Iwao Taki Category:Cephalopods described in 1942