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Atlantic longarm octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi)
Subject: | Atlantic longarm octopus (Macrotritopus defilippi)
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Date: 2023:06:21 10:36:40
Upload Date: 2023:06:21 19:44:57
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This tricky octopus for many years in the minds of scientists as two separate species: Octopus defilippi and Macrotritopus equivocus. The former was an adult octopus that roamed shallow sandy habitats, eating crabs and burying itself in the sediment. The latter was a transparent octopus paralarva that drifted in the plankton, two of its eight arms far longer than the rest. |
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