The stripes of the Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus are as unique as our own

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265292

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

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265292

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

Author Countries: USA

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

PLoS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0265292

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

12-Apr-2023

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

The stripes of the Lesser Pacific Striped Octopus are as unique as our own fingerprints, enabling scientists to track individuals as they grow