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
Octopus Octopus are mollusks like squid. There are about 200 species of octopus. There are two large groups of octopus. The cirrata or finned octopuses live in the deep sea at depths of between 1000 and 24,000 feet. About 85% of octopus are in the incirrata group. They have no fins and live in shallow water in caves or crevices. Octopus have no shell at all, not even an inner one. They have eight tentacles. The tentacles have suction cups on them and are used to hold onto prey. The tentacles also have taste sensors that let the octopus know if what it grabbed is worth eating. The octopus' mouth is in the center of its tentacles.