morphological description and mitochondrial dna-based phylogenetic placement of a new species of callistoctopus taki, 1964 (cephalopoda, octopodidae) from the southeast waters of china

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Species in the genus Callistoctopus were previously treated as the "Octopus macropus group", from which Norman separated four new species. The current taxonomy of species in this genus is mainly based on morphological features, while there are still very limited molecular data. In Chinese waters, only two species Callistoctopus ornatus (Gould, 1852) and C. luteus (Sasaki, 1929), have been recorded so far (Lu et_al 2012; Norman et_al 2014). The authors described one new species of Callistoctopus, which was called ‘xiaohongxu` in Chinese for its smooth skin and reddish-brown colour, from the southeast China . . .

 



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