
Lilliput Longarm Octopus #1

by Dante Fenolio
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Lilliput Longarm Octopus #1
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Dante Fenolio
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Photograph - Photograph
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The Lilliput Longarm Octopus, Macrotritopus defillipi, mimics flatfish on the sea floor. This larvae is still living life in the water column and has not yet metamorphosed into the adult form -- which will live on the sea floor. This individual was trawled up in the Gulf of Mexico, 2015.
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October 8th, 2015
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