Wunderpus photogenicus
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| Wunderpus photogenicus Hochberg, Norman & Finn, 2006 |
The wonderpus (wunderpus) octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) is a species of octopus in the monotypic genus Wunderpus. It is found in the shallow waters of the Indo-Malayan archipelago. W. photogenicus is a long-armed species characterised by "small eyes on elongate stalks, a long, conical papilla over each eye and a dramatic and fixed colour pattern of white bars and spots over a brown-red background". It is often confused with the similarly coloured Mimic Octopus.
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- Hochberg, F.G., M.D. Norman & J. Finn 2006. Wunderpus photogenicus n. gen. and sp., a new octopus from the shallow waters of the Indo-Malayan Archipelago (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae).PDF (805 KiB) Molluscan Research 26(3): 128–140. ISSN 1323-5818
