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OCTOPODIDAE 489<br />

Aside from egg-size and egg-clusters and mantle-arm index, there is great<br />

difficulty in separating this species from O. bimaciiloides Pickford which<br />

lives nearby in shallower water where there is mud present.<br />

Octopus bimaciiloides Pickford Mud-flat Octopus<br />

Los i\ngeles, California, to Lower California.<br />

Almost identical with O. bimacidatus Verrill. Eggs large, 9.5 to 17.5<br />

mm. in length, with shorter stalks, attached in small clusters. Mantle-arm<br />

index 34, but ranging from 29 to 39. Fairly common in shallow water among<br />

rocks where mud is present. Adults are somewhat smaller than bimacidatus.

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