Data from: Thorson's rule, life history evolution and diversification of benthic octopuses (Cephalopoda: Octopodoidea)

• Main Authors: Ibáñez, Christian M., Rezende, Enrico L., Sepúlveda, Roger D., Avaria-Llautureo, Jorge, Hernández, Cristián E., Sellanes, Javier, Poulin, Elie, Pardo-Gandarillas, María Cecilia
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2018
• Subjects: Octopus mimus; Holobenthic; Megaleledone setebos; Robsonella fontaniana; Octopus vulgaris; Muusoctopus longibrachus; Life histories; Amphioctopus marginatus; egg size; Graneledone verrucosa; Pareledone charcoti; Merobenthic; Enteroctopus megalocyathus; Octopus maya; Megaleledone Setebos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.07s9f96

Here we evaluate the so-called Thorson's rule, which posits that direct-development and larger eggs are favored towards the poles in marine organisms and whose validity been the subject of considerable debate in the literature, combining an expanded phenotypic dataset encompassing 60 species of...