Photo: Nine-tentacled octopus
28 Oct 2007
An octopus with nine tentacles was spotted at the Marusan Seafood Shop in Marugame, Japan (Kagawa prefecture) on October 26, one day after it was caught in the Seto Inland Sea. Masa Koita, the 60-year-old shop manager, noticed the abnormal Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris) after he had boiled it in preparation for market. “In 40 years of handling seafood, I’ve never seen an octopus like this,” he said.
A spokesperson for the Akashi Seafood Council in nearby Hyogo prefecture confirmed the unusual nature of the extra-tentacled creature: “In Akashi, we might see one every 20 years or so. They are extremely rare.”
Koita says he will show off the octopus for a few days before selling it to a lucky customer.
[Source: Asahi]
There can never be too many pink tentacles!
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octopuses don’t have ‘tentacles’, they have ‘arms’. squid have two tentacles (the long ones) and 8 arms.
no really
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If its so rare, shouldn’t it be spared and thrown back to see?
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didnt you read….it says he noticed after he boiled it… soooo….. i dont think it would be any good throwing it into the sea… if thats what you mean….
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noticed the abnormal Common Octopus after he had boiled it
Throwing it back to sea wouldn’t achieve much.
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OCTOPUSES ARE AWESOME!!!!!!
TOTTALY DUDEARONI
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Reminds me of the two headed frogs that I have seen in the news periodically.
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Lucky customer. I am sure it will be a deliciously AGED 9 armed NONAPUS. God, that has a strange sound to it.
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I truly admire the Japanese culture in so many ways, but they apparently have the all culinary descretion of cockroaches.
Is there nothing they won’t eat?
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There are far worse things to eat than octopus. Far worse.
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dude this is the coolest thing I saw all day!!! I love to eat octopuses or in japanese tako.
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9-legged octopi are nice people but they’re really difficult to nail to the table for sex. Come on, admit it - we’ve all forgotten to bring that extra nail on at least one occasion right?
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dude, that is sick. dude, ya. like, really kool.
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that is so cool a pink 9 armed nonopus. that just made my day doing all this summer school work. dude this octopus or whatever it is should be spared.
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Octopodes are badass. Apparently pink Nonopodes are right up there at the top of the list too, because that is atrociously awesome.
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Just like that hexapus! except its got 9 instead of 6
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ewwwww thats nastyyyy!
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Awesome! People who say it should be spared, its already boiled. Its dead -___-;
And, the owner spotted it AFTER he boiled it. And this is very kewl! Lucky customer
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I cannot understand why people are asking for it to be spared. They clearly havent read the article and want to go on about how barbaric it is that people eat octopuses.
Anyway. Were it alive the mutation would most likely kust be lost back into the gene pool so nothing gained nothing lost.
MMMM calamari.
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