Natural History Report of Kanagawa
Online ISSN : 2189-6712
Print ISSN : 0388-9009
First Record of a Common Reef Octopus, Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda; Octpodidae) from Sagami Bay, Kanagawa Prefecture
Keigo ImaiKazuhiko Yamada
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2013 Volume 2013 Issue 34 Pages 37-39

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Octopus cyanea Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda; Octpodidae) is widely distributed in shallow waters of subtropic and tropic regions of Indo-Pacific Ocean. In Japan, O. cyanea is recorded from Hachijo Island to Ogasawara Islands and from Shikoku to Ryukyus. No record about this octopus has ever been reported from Sagami Bay. We newly report three obvious records of this species from the bay depending on the specimen and the photographs. This is the northernmost records for this species in Japan.
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