Individually unique body color patterns in octopus (Wunderpus photogenicus) allow for photoidentification

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Huffard, Christine L ^a   Caldwell, Roy L ^b   DeLoach, Ned ^c   Gentry, David Wayne ^d   Humann, Paul ^c   MacDonald, Bill ^d   Moore, Bruce ^e   Ross, Richard ^f   Uno, Takako ^a   Wong, Stephen ^a  

^a MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c New World Publications   (United States)

^d Bill Macdonald Productions ^*  (United States)

^e Steinhart Aquarium   (United States)

^f Homantin Government Offices   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OCTOPUS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; WUNDERPUS PHOTOGENICUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ANATOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION;

ANIMALIA; INVERTEBRATA; OCTOPUS; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; OCTOPODIFORMES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGMENTATION;

EID: 56649107880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003732     Document Type: Article

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