For the baseball event nicknamed the Boston Massacre, see Yankees â Red Sox rivalry. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five male civilians and injured six others.
The males of this group have a modified third arm into a hectocotylus. Their hectocotylus is not detachable. This group includes all of the classic octopuses that even children can imagine, including the common octopus: Octopus vulgaris. Genus: Enteroctopus The members of this genus are known as âgiant octopuses.â
Octopuses (or occasionally octopodes). Although it is often supposed that octopi is the 'correct' plural of octopus, and it has been in use for longer than the usual Anglicized plural octopuses, it in fact originates as an error.ccording to the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary, the standard plural in English of octopus is octopuses. However, the word octopus comes from Greek and the Greek plural form octopodes is still occasionally used. The plural form octopi, formed according to rules for some Latin plurals, is incorrect.