A comprehensive survey of the octopus fauna around the Americas is presented to facilitate
and accelerate the assessment of a full understanding of American octopus biodiversity …

Species are expected to migrate to higher latitudes as warming intensifies due to
anthropogenic climate change since physiological mechanisms have been adapted to …

With gradual decline of global finfish resources, fisheries targeting cephalopods expanded.
Yet, the stock assessment and management practice are frequently lacking, and existing …

The tropical Octopus insularis is a shallow-water species widely distributed in the western
Atlantic. Recent studies of niche models have identified suitable habitats for its settlement …

Shallow-water, benthic octopuses from the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and tropical western
Atlantic have undergone extensive taxonomic expansion and revision over the last two …

Mexican management plans currently consider just two octopus species in the official
regulations, Octopus maya and Octopus vulgaris. However, the common octopus of the …

The new species, Paroctopus cthulu sp. nov. Leite, Lima, Lima and Haimovici was recorded
from shallow coastal waters of south and southeastern Brazil, where most specimens were …

Three sardine species of Harengula and one of Opisthonema (Clupeiformes, Clupeidae) are
known in the Western Atlantic, where the Amazon-Orinoco plume has been recognized as a …

The octopus fishery on the Campeche Bank (Yucatán, Mexico) is considered the third
largest in the world. In Yucatán, two fleets target this resource: an artisanal fleet and a semi …

Over 150 species of benthic octopods have been described within the 'catch-all'Octopus
genus (Family: Octopodidae) and yet, many Octopus species harvested by fisheries remain …