Extended Pelagic Life in a Bathybenthic Octopus

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Villanueva, Roger, Laptikhovsky, Vladimir V, Piertney, Stuart B, Fernández-Álvarez, Fernando Ángel, Collins, Martin A, Ablett, J, Escánez, Alejandro
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2020
• Subjects: Mollusca; Cephalopoda; Octopoda; planktonic larvae; mesopelagic zone; Villanueva; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622874; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.561125

Planktonic stages of benthic octopuses can reach relatively large sizes in some species, usually in oceanic, epipelagic waters while living as part of the macroplankton. These young octopuses appear to delay settlement on the seabed for an undetermined period of time that is probably longer than for...