Octopus wolfi

{{short description|Species of cephalopods}}

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Allcock, L. |author2=Headlam, J. |year=2018 |title=Octopus wolfi |volume=2018 |page=e.T162989A962316 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T162989A962316.en |access-date=7 October 2023}}

| taxon = Octopus wolfi

| authority = (Wülker, 1913) {{cite web |author=Bouchet, Philippe |year=2010 |title=Octopus wolfi (Wülker, 1913) |id=342047 |access-date=20 May 2017|url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=342047|publisher = Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee|work = World Register of Marine Species}}

| synonyms = Polypus wolfi Wülker, 1913

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Octopus wolfi, the star-sucker pygmy octopus, is the smallest known octopus. It is found in fairly shallow waters in the western Pacific. It is characterised by a pattern of "papillate fringes" around the edge of the suckers near the arm tip.{{cite journal |last=Roper |first=C. F. E. |last2=Mangold |first2=K. M. |year=1991 |title=Octopus schultzei (Hoyle, 1910): a redescription with designation of Aphrodoctopus new genus (Cephalopoda; Octopodinae) |journal=Bulletin of Marine Science |url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/11021/iz_Roper-1991.pdf}}

Its length is less than {{convert|2.5|cm|in|0|abbr=on}} and it weighs less than {{convert|1|g|oz|2|abbr=on}}. It is found in the western Pacific Ocean at depths between {{convert|3-30|m|||abbr=}}.{{cite news |title=Octopus wolfi |author=Main, Douglas |url=http://www.newsweek.com/its-world-octopus-day-here-are-eight-awesome-octopodes-380982 |newspaper=Newsweek: Tech and Science |date=10 August 2015 |access-date=1 May 2017}}