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Fig. 1. Examples of body positions during: (A) jetting, (B-D) swimming, (E) walking and (F-M) crawling by a variety of octopuses, in which all except A show movement from the left to right side of the page. (A) Hapalochlaena lunulata jetting vertically up and down in the water column, drawn from the video Shape of Life: Survival Game Sea Studios, Inc., cameraman Bob Cranston. (B) Thaumoctopus mimicus swimming slightly above the substrate, drawn from a frame of a video taken by Annie Crawley (damaged arm I idealized, but missing arm not created). (C) H. lunulata swimming in the water column, drawn from photograph by R. L. Caldwell. (D) Octopus sp. 18 (Norman, 2000) swimming close to the substrate, drawn from photograph by Roger Steene (Norman, 2000). (E) Amphioctopus marginatus drawn from the video Shape of Life: Survival Game Sea Studios, Inc., cameraman Bob Cranston. (F) H. lunulata drawn from a photograph by R. L. Caldwell. (G) Octopus cf. sp. 18 (Norman, 2000) drawn from photograph by Jeffrey Rosenfeld. (H) Octopus sp. 2 (Hoover, 1998) drawn from photograph. (I) Callistoctopus luteus, drawn from photograph by Roberto Sozzani. (J) Octopus sp. 20 (Norman, 2000) drawn from a photograph by Denise Tackett. (K-M) A. aculeatus (North Sulawesi) drawn from frames of a video and field drawings.





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