'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] mb-code 1238875 and discovered hostile intentions

and discovered hostile intentions

Bobby Noble

Photographers AND Miniature Painters

West view of Chelsea Bridge

seen from the shore of the River Thames

'Octopus violaceus' [Violet blanket octopus] mb-code 1238875 and discovered hostile intentionsMarine zoological study of the violet blanket octopus (Tremoctopus violenceus). The cephalopod is presented from above with an inset detail of the underside, including funnel, anus and gonads. Plate 20 in the section 'G. Poulpe' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857)