Arm Abnormality in Octopus hubbsorum (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopodidae)

María del Carmen Alejo-Plata; Omar Valencia Méndez

doi:10.4003/006.032.0212

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María del Carmen Alejo-Plata,¹ Omar Valencia Méndez²

¹Universidad del Mar, Campus Puerto Ángel, Ciudad Universitaria, Puerto Ángel, San Pedro Pochutla, C.P: 70902, Oaxaca, México
²Posgrado en Ecología Marina, Universidad del Mar, Campus Puerto Ángel, Oaxaca, México Correspondence, María del Carmen Alejo-Plata: plata@angel.umar.mx

Abstract

Octopus hubbsorum Berry, 1953 occurs in a wide region of the oriental tropical Pacific. This is the principal target species in the octopus fisheries in Mexico. A female with abnormally bifurcated second arm was collected from an artisanal fishery in Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico.

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María del Carmen Alejo-Plata and Omar Valencia Méndez "Arm Abnormality in Octopus hubbsorum (Mollusca: Cephalopoda: Octopodidae)," American Malacological Bulletin 32(2), 217-219, (1 September 2014). https://doi.org/10.4003/006.032.0212

Received: 20 January 2014; Accepted: 1 March 2014; Published: 1 September 2014

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