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#Giant pacific octopus full
A full species description remains to be done. Like other octopuses, the giant Pacific octopus exhibits bilateral symmetry and has a bulbous head, eight. We offer the common name of the frilled giant Pacific octopus for the novel morphotype, and based on genetic and morphological data suggest this clade is a new species of large Pacific octopus in the genus Enteroctopus. Body pattern traits can be used in field identification of live octopuses allowing population assessments, by-catch frequency estimates, and other studies of both octopus types. The GPO and novel morphotypes are sister clades, and body pattern traits reliably identified individuals to morphotype and haplotype.
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The Octopus is drawn from the map details and the background image is one taken of the pacific ocean, this guy is one of the artists all time favorites. He lives there in the cool deep waters, waiting to give curious divers a 16’ hug.
#Giant pacific octopus skin
Specialized cells called chromatophores allow these and other octopuses to change their skin colour and texture in one tenth. They are usually a deep orange-brown colour, but they have sophisticated camouflage capabilities. Novel morphotype body patterns did not match descriptions of any species from the eastern north Pacific, while its genetic haplotype matched that of a recently sequenced undescribed octopus. The Giant Pacific Octopus is hand drawn over a 1947 map of the Tacoma Narrows (just south of Seattle). The giant Pacific octopus is the largest octopus in the world, weighing 50 kilograms or more and measuring up to 9 metres. dofleini based on the match of body pattern traits to published descriptions of that species and the match of its genetic haplotype to published sequences of E. The GPO morphotype was identified with E.
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The genetic haplotypes of these octopuses were determined from nucleotide sequence data from two microsatellite loci and a portion of the OCDE gene. Additional traits could be used in combination to reliably characterize the novel morphotype. Octopuses reproduce sexually, and have both male and female octopuses.
#Giant pacific octopus Patch
Novel morphotype octopuses were distinguished without exception from GPO morphotype octopuses by the presence of a lateral mantle frill and the absence of longitudinal mantle folds, ventral mantle texture below the lateral frill, and patch and groove patterning. The spawning of the giant pacific may occur at any time of the year however the mating of the octopus peaks in the winter months, with the peak of egg laying in April and may. Live octopuses were photographed in captivity and assigned to a morphotype based on whether longitudinal mantle folds (a characteristic body pattern feature of the giant Pacific octopus (GPO), Enteroctopus dofleini ( Wülker 1910)) were present (the GPO morphotype, N = 14) or absent (a novel morphotype, N = 6). We tested whether body patterns distinguished two haplotypes of large octopus in Prince William Sound Alaska.