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First record of pouched octopus, Cistopus platinoidus in a tropical estuary

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Relation http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15391/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272771421004479?via%3Dihub
10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107598
 
Title First record of pouched octopus, Cistopus platinoidus in a tropical estuary
 
Creator Vaisakh, G
Roshith, C M
Chandra, Ganesh
Behera, Bijay Kumar
Kamble, Suhas Prakash
Sajikumar, K K
Parida, Pranaya Kumar
Gondhaliya, Bhavesh
Banik, S
Das, B K
 
Subject New record
Upwelling
Invertebrata
Cephalopods
Molluscan Fisheries
 
Description Octopuses are marine benthic stenohaline organisms that exhibit a short range of migration within marine
habitats and avoid brackish or freshwater environments. The present document is the first record of ’pouched
octopus’, Cistopus platinoidus Sreeja et al. 2015, from a tropical estuarine system. We collected 15 specimens of
C. platinoidus from the set bag nets operated in Narmada estuary, located 40 km away from the river mouth with
an in-situ salinity of 17.63. This report is a new finding of an octopus species from a brackish water ecosystem
outside its normal inhabitance range to the best of our knowledge.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2021
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/15391/1/Estuarine%2C%20Coastal%20and%20Shelf%20Science_2021_Vaisakh%20Gopinathapillai.pdf
Vaisakh, G and Roshith, C M and Chandra, Ganesh and Behera, Bijay Kumar and Kamble, Suhas Prakash and Sajikumar, K K and Parida, Pranaya Kumar and Gondhaliya, Bhavesh and Banik, S and Das, B K (2021) First record of pouched octopus, Cistopus platinoidus in a tropical estuary. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 262. pp. 1-6.