Recent studies have shown that coastal and shelf cephalopod populations have increased
globally over the last six decades. Although cephalopod landings are dominated by the …

The tropical Octopus insularis is a shallow-water species widely distributed in the western
Atlantic. Recent studies of niche models have identified suitable habitats for its settlement …

Octopus insularis is a benthic octopod from the tropical and subtropical Western Atlantic
Ocean that inhabits semi‐permanent “dens”(small crevices) in hard substrate. We used …

A comprehensive survey of the octopus fauna around the Americas is presented to facilitate
and accelerate the assessment of a full understanding of American octopus biodiversity …

The population dynamics of the stout reef octopus, Octopus insularis fished with longlines of
pots in mid-shelf waters of north-eastern Brazil was studied based on fishermen's logbooks …

Octopus insularis is an active and opportunistic predator, its diet depends on the habitat in
which it develops and the abundance and distribution of the species it preys on. Despite its …

Unassessed fisheries, mostly non-targeted fisheries, are now particularly predominant in
many commercial fisheries and are critical to food security in developing countries. These …

The dynamics and population structure of octopus species in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) can
be studied by analyzing dispersal paralarvae mechanisms. Accordingly, this study focused …

Paralarvae (PL) are crucial to understanding the life cycle and population dynamics of
cephalopods. Misidentification of species with similar morphology is a problem that hampers …

Octopus insularis, despite being widely fished from Brazil to Mexico, has only recently been
described as a different species from the sympatric Octopus vulgaris complex in the tropical …