The best-known octopus is the common octopus, O. vulgaris, a medium-sized animal that is widely distributed in tropical and temperate seas throughout the world.

It lives in holes or crevices along the rocky bottom and is secretive and retiring by nature.

It feeds mainly on crabs and other crustaceans.

This species is thought to be the most intelligent of all invertebrate animals.

O. vulgaris has highly developed pigment-bearing cells and can change its skin colors to an astonishing degree with great rapidity. 

Each pigment-bearing cell (chromatophore) is individually innervated from the brain.

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