Forums: Octopodidae

Articles on raising O.briareus Life history and den ecology of Octopus briareus Robson in a marine lake - abstract Growth Data Bad OCR scan of a paper about dugeti that also contained comparisons to growth rates of briareus Temperature (c): 25 Max Adult Size: 5700 Hatchling WW ...

I have been trying to find official identifying descriptions for the hummelincki and have discovered that most of the research dates back to the 1950's or earlier (pre SCUBA). The descriptions are all based on dead animals (most killed in situ to extract them) with preservation artifacts or...

There are several good photographs and descriptions in this paper. The link has a free to view PDF (Thank you Dr. Hanlon!) It also goes over some of the behaviors that are more typical of young octos that should be helpful for other species. Body Patterning and Field Observations of Octopus...

I was looking at the mimic octo and thought they were great. Do they have the strong venom like others have, and how dangerous is it?

Dear all, does somebody know the accurate biological cycle of O. vulgaris along coast of Morocco or Mauritania ?? how many cohorts, when ..... many thanks in adavnce R. Sabatié

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1q8UhcIu40 TONMO wants to automagically embed, but the video says "embedding disabled by request" and the embedded version doesn't seem to work for me. If you put "http://www.youtube.com/" in front of "watch?v=z1q8UhcIu40" you can watch it if the embedded version...

Here is the link to a paper done by crissy huffard on abdopus aculeatus and its natural settings,, I got the ok to share this here.. "Thanks Again!" http://www.orbitfiles.com/download/id2148308471.html

A paper by Dr. Woods, on arcticus, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape2/PQDD_0020/NQ57374.pdf a few small video clips. http://www.mnh.si.edu/cephs/bathypolypus.html

Hey everyone. If it's alright, I've got a few more specific questions on the Two-Spot for the project I'm doing. I've been searching the internet, and have only been able to find general information on the bimaculoides' ecology and such. So, here goes: -What habitat does it live in?...

hey sorry if this is the wrong place but i i'm woundering if ther is any octo that would live in a 25 gallon tank -thanx:smile:

Is there a consensus in the taxonomic community as to whether we should say Abdopus aculeatus or Octopus aculeatus? I saw that it's A. on Mucktopus' web site, referring to Norman, yet Norman's book says O. And is Abdopus now synonymous with "Octopus Horridus Complex"? Just curious...

Anyone know what their predators and if possible a source where you found this out. thanks!

There's a piece called Strange New Creatures Found in Antarctica at livescience.com that features a neat picture of what is referred to as a "newfound psychedelic octopus." :razz: Or, a Pareledone Turqueti, according to the picture caption.

Where can we find O.vulgaris arround the world? They live also in north america or only live in the european an african coasts?. Cheers Carles

Recently Norman & Hochberg (2005) have proffered a review of the current status of octopus taxonomy that alternately disregards, misrepresents and misreports earlier research to such an extent that I am compelled to critique their account herein. To a great extent this critique quotes passages...

Hallo :smile: Does anybody know something about the genetic status of the two Octopodidae species Eledone and Pareledone? The "Par-" may suggest a close relationship and I know that according to morphological data they constitute the subfamily Eledoninae (Sweeney & Roper, 2001), but has their...

I was looking at www.edge-of-reef.com and umm.. That just seems realy weird but theres go to be something like that out there. what do you think?

We are currently in the process of fabricating a number of tanks for the captive rearing of this little guy. They tend to last less than a year in tanks, but I have never raised one from the egg, so it is hard to say just how long the lifespan is...in the wild, it is less than twelve months also. ...