Are there collective nouns for cephalopods in general? Just for octopuses? Squids? Etc?

What do you call a group of octopuses? A tangle?


http://www.ojohaven.com/collectives/

a shoal of squid. I've never heard of a word for octos or cuttles, maybe because they tend not to congregate en masse so much.

We go with a school of squid, nothing for the others but a cuddle of cuttlefish sounds good :grin:

J

Well, I have not found anything official so far. So in the absence of precedence, I am going to propose the following: An Embrace of Octopuses. As pointed out, we don't usually find octopuses hanging out in numbers. Except maybe a mother with her clutch. But there you go. Anyone else have other ideas?

A squad of squid? A convention of cephalopods?

I like cuddle of cuttlefish and Embrace of octopuses.

How about a "clunk of nautalises" <--I'm sorrry if I spelled that wrong - what is the plural of Nautalis anyhow?

Deja vu! (http://www.tonmo.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1044)