Individually unique, fixed stripe configurations of Octopus chierchiae allow for photoidentification in long-term studies (VIDEO)

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O. chierchiae capturing an amphipod near the opening of the shell it occupied.

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Saumitra Kelkar, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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