Polvo
Octopus (Octopus vulgaris),
Polvo (Octopus vulgaris), the common octopus, encloses its innards in a hood and has eight tentacles that are nice as a salad or in caldeirada and truly superb when baked in the oven. In the Algarve,the village Sanra Luzia on the Ria Formosa near Tavira is known as "Capital do Polvo" , i.e. the capital of the octopus.