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Lepidoctopus
Lepidoctopus joaquini is a little-known species of small octopus in the family Octopodidae. It is the only known species in the monotypic genus Lepidoctopus, and is endemic to the Amazon Reef system of the Atlantic Ocean, where it lives in benthic habitats. It was discovered during surveys that attempted to map the cephalopod diversity of the reef system by analyzing the stomach contents of southern red snappers (Lutjanus purpureus), and is currently only known from specimens
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 989756.