The Blue Ringed Octopus

The Blue Ringed Octopus

The Blue Ringed Octopus is a poisonous mollusk fish . It has blue rings in his body that's why it is called The Blue Ringed Octopus. It found in pacific , western Australia .

Classification

The genus was described by British zoologist Guy Coburn Robson in 1929. There are three confirmed species of Hapalochlaena, and a fourth is still being researched:

• Greater blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata)
• Southern blue-ringed octopus or lesser blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa)
  

Venom

The octopus produces venom containing tetrodotoxin, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of the blue-ringed octopus is a venom that was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin, a neurotoxin also found in pufferfish and some poison dart frogs.

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