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

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

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Photographs depicting Octopus chierchiae of different ages. (A) One-year-old O. chierchiae adult. (B) One-day-old O. chierchiae hatchling. (C) Five-day-old O. chierchiae hatchling already displaying a developing stripe configuration.

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Liu et al., 2023, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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