Carrie Bow Cay (W side), lagoon, south of boat dock, Belize, North Atlantic Ocean
Collection Date:
25 May 1976
Common name:
Cephalopods
Taxonomy:
Animalia Mollusca Cephalopoda Octopodida Octopodidae
Published Name:
Octopus briareus Robson, 1929
Accession Number:
321390
USNM Number:
1149379
Specimen Count:
1
Site Number:
AC-CBC-71
Notes:
high tide: octopus from conch shell (reached out and grabbed Joan's foot with arm); brown and off-white, turned partly blue when killed; partially relaxed in MgCl2 before preserving in 10% buffered formalin
Crooked Island, at and around the tip of Pitts Town Point, NW tp of island, Bahamas, North Atlantic Ocean
Collection Date:
1 Jun 1962
Common name:
Cephalopods
Cephalopods
Cephalopods
Taxonomy:
Animalia Animalia Animalia Mollusca Mollusca Mollusca Cephalopoda Cephalopoda Cephalopoda Octopodida Octopodida Octopodida Octopodidae Octopodidae Octopodidae
Published Name:
Octopus briareus Robson, 1929
Octopus vulgaris Cuvier, 1797
Octopus joubini Robson, 1929
Accession Number:
257407
USNM Number:
1149293
Specimen Count:
4
Site Number:
586
Notes:
mixed lot - Octopus briareus, Octopus vulgaris and Octopus joubini