Deep-sea seven-arm octopus hijacks jellyfish in shallow waters

Pelagic octopods have secondarily left the seafloor and evolved a holopelagic existence. One of the most striking adaptations among a suite of related pelagic octopod families (superfamily Argonautoidea) is their associations with gelatinous zooplankton (jellyfishes and salps). Here, we report a uni...

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Main Author: Rosa, Rui (author)
Other Authors: Kelly, Jesse T. (author), Lopes, Vanessa M. (author), Paula, José R. (author), Gonçalves, João M. (author), Calado, Ricardo (author), Norman, Mark D. (author), Barreiros, João P. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2017
Subjects:
Cephalopods
Haliphron atlanticus
Ethology
Behaviour
Jellyfish
Pelagic octopods
Gelatinous zooplankton
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/4480
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.uac.pt:10400.3/4480

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