常看到它的名稱，較少見的種類...章魚，魷魚，和墨魚--
小飛象章魚（Dumbo octopus）屬Grimpoteuthis的章魚,被稱為小飛象章魚,是因從他們的頭狀(身體)頂部突起的耳狀的鰭，類似迪斯尼的小飛象的耳朵。
The octopuses of the genus Grimpoteuthis are also known as Dumbo octopuses from the ear-like fins protruding from the top of their head-like bodies, resembling the ears of Walt Disney's flying elephant Dumbo.
他們是半深海的生物，生活在深處3000至4000米（ 9,800至13,000英尺），有些低於7000米（23,000英尺）海平面.他們是浮游動物類,而且是一些稀有的八腕章魚物種.最大的小飛象章魚有6英尺（1.8米）長，體重13磅（5.9千克） ，但正常的小飛象尺碼是較其他的章魚小.(20厘米).
They are bathyal creatures, living at extreme depths of 3,000 to 4,000 metres (9,800 to 13,000 ft), with some living up to 7,000 metres (23,000 ft) below sea level, which is the deepest of any known octopus.They are some of the rarest of the Octopoda species, and are pelagic animals, as with all other cirrate octopuses. The largest Dumbo octopus ever recorded was 6 feet (1.8 m) in length and weighed 13 pounds (5.9 kg), although the normal size for the various species is thought to be smaller.
他們多數在海底盤旋，尋找多毛類，浮游橈足類，等足類，端足目動物，和其他甲殼類為食物.小飛象章魚是奇怪的食它的食物，它跟其他章魚不同,因為它是把整個獵物吞下.
They hover above the sea floor, searching for polychaetes,pelagic copepods , isopods, amphipods, and other crustaceans for food.The Dumbo octopus is strange in the way it consumes food in that it swallows its prey whole, which differs from any other kind of octopus.
吸血鬼烏賊（Vampyroteuthis infernalis，"地獄吸血鬼烏賊”）是發現在世界的溫帶和熱帶深海域一類"海頭足類"的小品種.跟魷魚和章魚相似.
The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. "vampire squid of Hell") is a small, deep-sea cephalopod found throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world.which shares similarities with both squid and octopuses.
吸血鬼烏賊它的名字,就是來自.動物的深色,斗篷般網形的皮膚，和2.5厘米（1英寸)直徑紅藍色的眼睛.The animal's dark colour, cloak-like webbing, and red eyes are what gave the vampire squid its name.
吸血鬼烏賊全長達到約30厘米（1英尺）.其膠質體身體約15厘米（ 6英寸）,天鵝絨般的烏黑和淡紅色之間變化顏色的身體，和它清澈，會出現紅色或藍色球狀的眼睛，這都是取決於位置和光暗環境.
The vampire squid reaches a maximum total length of around 30 cm (1 ft). Its 15-cm (6-in) gelatinous body varies in colour between velvety jet-black and pale reddish, depending on location and lighting conditions. Its limpid, globular eyes, which appear red or blue, depending on lighting, are proportionately the largest in the animal kingdom at 2.5 cm (1 in) in diameter.
成網形的皮膚連接的八臂，做成裡面黑色的“斗篷”,每個兩邊有一排排肉刺或觸鬚,只有從身體遠端一半外部的臂有吸盤.
A webbing of skin connects its eight arms, each lined with rows of fleshy spines or cirri; the inside of this "cloak" is black. Only the distal half (farthest from the body) of the arms have suckers.
吸血鬼烏賊幾乎完全覆蓋著生產光的器官叫做"發光器 photophores"。烏賊可隨時隨地控制器官，能夠產生迷惑閃爍的光線,從幾分之一秒到幾分鐘的持續時間.
The vampire squid is almost entirely covered in light-producing organs called photophores. The animal has great control over the organs, capable of producing disorienting flashes of light for fractions of a second to several minutes in duration. .
吸血鬼烏賊其中防禦方法之一“南瓜體態”
vampire squid adopting its defensive "pumkin posture"
毯子章魚blanket octopuus--
Tremoctopus是浮游頭足類的一屬，有四個多品種在亞熱帶和熱帶海洋的中間水域.他們通常被稱為毯章魚.成年女性在背和背外側特長的手臂連接著半透明網,其他的手臂就短得多.
Tremoctopus is a genus of pelagic cephalopods, containing four species that occupy surface to mid-waters in subtropical and tropical oceans.[1] They are commonly known as blanket octopuses, in reference to the long transparent webs that connect the dorsal and dorsolateral arms of the adult females. The other arms are much shorter and lack webbing.
這些物種兩個性別差異程度是很極端的.女性可能在長度達到2米（ 6.6英尺） ，而微小的男性是最多幾厘米長。男性有一個特別的第三右臂來存儲精子，被稱為hectocotylus 。在交配期間，這條手臂剝離男性身體,並爬到女性斗篷身體內,使她的卵受精.雄性交配後不久便會死亡.女性就攜帶附著在背臂腳的"臘腸狀鈣質物"的10萬小蛋,直到孵化.
These species exhibit an extreme degree of sexual dimorphism.Females may reach 2 metres ()(6.6 ft) in length, whereas the tiny males are at most a few centimeters long. The males have a specially modified third right arm which stores sperm, known as a hectocotylus. During mating, this arm detaches itself and crawls into the mantle of the female to fertilize her eggs. The male dies shortly after mating. The females carry over 100,000 tiny eggs attached to a sausage-shaped calcareous secretion held at the base of the dorsal arms and carried by the female until hatching.
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毯子章魚是免疫於有毒"葡人O戰爭水母".
Blanket octopuses are immune to the poisonous Portuguese man o' war.
poisonous Portuguese man o' war葡人O戰爭水母
女性，受到威脅的時候，隨即擴大和攤開她的網狀膜,驚嚇攻擊者.
Also, when threatened, the female unfurls her large net-like membranes that spread out and billow in the water, greatly increasing her apparent size.
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