Callistoctopus macropus [SEP] parent taxon
Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. It is also present in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It lives near the shore at depths down to about . Its favoured habitat is sand, rubble or seagrass meadows, and it sometimes buries itself under the sand.
Ecology.
"Callistoctopus macropus" is more fastidious in its diet than is the common octopus ("Octopus vulgaris"), a species with which it shares some of its range and which feeds by day. "Callistoctopus macropus", by contrast, feeds by
. The type location was given as Port Essington.
The author assigned the new species to the genus "Osphranter",
a taxon later submerged as a subgenus of "Macropus", and recognised an affinity with his earlier description of "Macropus robustus" (known as the euro or wallaroo).
The common names of the species include antilopine wallaroo, antilopine kangaroo and antilopine wallaby.
The specific epithet "antilopinus" was proposed by Gould for the resemblance of the fur to an African mammal known as the