First encounter with a live male blanket octopus: The world's most sexually size-dimorphic large animal

New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 733-736

  Norman, M D ^a,b   Paul, D ^b   Finn, J ^c   Tregenza, T ^d  

^a MUSEUM VICTORIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blanket octopus; Defences; Evolution; Physalia; Sexual dimorphism; Tremoctopus

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOPOD; EVOLUTION; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SEXUAL SELECTION;

ANIMALIA; CEPHALOPODA; CNIDARIA; OCTOPUS; PHYSALIA; TREMOCTOPUS; TREMOCTOPUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 0036930626     PISSN: 00288330     EISSN: 11758805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2002.9517126     Document Type: Article

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