Rare Blue Octopus Returns to Galápagos as a Newly Identified Species : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
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Rare Blue Octopus Returns to Galápagos as a Newly Identified Species : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
The rare blue octopus that surprised scientists has returned to the Galápagos Islands. The specimen, about the size of a golf ball, will be preserved at the Charles Darwin Research Station, which houses an extensive collection representing the archipelago’s extraordinary biodiversity. An expedition collected the first specimen of this species, distinguished by its small tentacles, […] The post Rare Blue Octopus Returns to Galápagos as a Newly Id…
Blue octopus endemicó Microeledone galapagensis returns to Darwin Station in Galapagos after its scientific classification.
This specimen, found in 2015, is identified as a holotype, i.e. the animal on which the description of the new species is based.
An expedition collected for the first time this unique species of small tentacles in 2015. It was more than 1,700 meters deep in the north of the Ecuadorian archipelago that conserves endemic flora and fauna. Only three specimens have been seen, but the other two were barely recorded on video. The octopus was transferred dead in 2022 to the Field Museum of Natural History of Chicago, in the United States. There it was baptized as Microeledone ga…
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