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Title: Brooding Mother Octopus. Sulawesi, Indonesia.
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A female veined octopus (coconut octopus: Amphioctopus marginatus) brooding and guarding eggs wrapped within her arms and using a shelter made of bivalve shell and discarded beer bottle. Note a small clutch of white eggs poking out on the right and the texture of eggs visible though the webs between her arms. Lembeh Strait, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Molucca Sea.
- Alexander Mustard
- critter
- Indonesia
- Lembeh Strait
- muck dive
- muck diving
- North Sulawesi
- SE Asia
- South East Asia
- tropical
- veined octopus: coconut octopus: Amphioctopus marginatus
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