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Caribbean Two-spot Octopus Octopus hummelincki

Classification

Octopodidae [family]
Octopus [genus] (4)
hummelincki [species]

Classification

Octopodidae [family]
Octopus [genus] (4)
hummelincki [species]

Presence

Recorded on
  • Bonaire
  • Curaçao
  • Presence status
  • Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
  • Indigenous (1) - Curaçao

  • Publications

    • Adam, W. 1937. Céphalopodes des Îles Bonaire et Curaçao. Capita Zoologica 8 part 3: 5-29.
    • Moolenbeek, R.G. 1984. Pickfordiateuthis pulchella [Cephalopoda: Myopsida]; range extension to Bonaire (N.A.). Studies on the fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands 67: 104-106.
    • Pratt, A., Baldwin, C.C. & Vecchione, M. 2020. Octopods of deep reefs off Curaçao, southern Caribbean, including description of one newly discovered species. Bulletin of Marine Science 96(2): 297-308. [link]