Where can I find good images of the anatomy of a male octopus?

Posted by admin on June 15th, 2010 and filed under images | 2 Comments »

My nephew is doing his science fair project on octopus reproduction. I’ve found several sites that have good images and diagrams of the male and female anatomy. However, we are still trying to find at least one really good diagram. We’d like to find one that shows and diagrams the male sex arm. I’ve searched Google images and the best I was able to get was the generalized diagram of the male anatomy. Any ideas?

http://www.australiancephalopods.com/occy_sex.html

They have an e-mail link, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have larger original photos not on the web site. It might be worth asking:

mailto:info@undersea.com.au?subject=Enquiry from the Cephalopod Web Site

2 Responses

  1. Franklin V Says:

    i don’t remember the exact issue, but the journal of the american association of zoo veterinarians has a paper with detailed dissection and description of octopus anatomy. i think it’s from around 1997.
    References :

  2. bud Says:

    http://www.australiancephalopods.com/occy_sex.html

    They have an e-mail link, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they have larger original photos not on the web site. It might be worth asking:

    mailto:info@undersea.com.au?subject=Enquiry from the Cephalopod Web Site
    References :

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