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Q: What is the functions of a mantle in a octopus?
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no, the octopus has one brain inside its mantle.


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According to its Wikipedia page: "It grows to at least 28 cm in mantle length and 90 cm in total length."


How octopus breath by lungs or gills or trachea?

The beak-like mouth of an octopus is located on the mantel cavity at the back of the bulbous head of the octopus, surrounded by the eight legs. The mouth is the entryway to the mantle cavity which has gills inside of it. The octopus uses these gills to breathe. Water is brought into the octopus mouth and is then passed through the gills back into the body of water. As the water is pushed over the surface of the gills, oxygen is picked up by the blood in the capillaries of the gills.


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answer 1: No, an octopus is not a vertebrate.answer 2: No, but they have the plastic-like, film-like, transparent i don't know in themanswer 2.1 You are referring to the mantle.


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What is an octopus covered with?

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