identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
03FE2B06FFF8FF987381FE51FDBB2E4A.text	03FE2B06FFF8FF987381FE51FDBB2E4A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Octopus insularis Leite & Haimovici 2008	<div><p>Octopus insularis: New sightings and proposed geographic range expansion</p> <p>The geographic range of O. insularis is currently recognized as extending from the coast of southern Brazil to as far north as Puerto Rico in the Caribbean to the east, and the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico to the west (Avendaño et al. 2020a; Figure 1). However, we have collected photographs of 25 individual octopuses displaying the species-specific characteristics described above for O. insularis from locations farther north than this recognized range, including the Turks and Caicos Islands (11 individuals), south Florida (five individuals), the Bahamas (six individuals) and Bermuda (three individuals; Table 1, Figures 1 and 4). Because these individuals possess the characteristics described above for O. insularis, we recommend tentatively extending the recognized range of this species to include these areas until a formal genetic analysis can be conducted.</p> </div>	http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FE2B06FFF8FF987381FE51FDBB2E4A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	O’Brien, Caitlin E.;Bennice, Chelsea O.;Leite, Tatiana	O’Brien, Caitlin E., Bennice, Chelsea O., Leite, Tatiana (2021): A field guide to distinguishing Octopus insularis and Octopus americanus (Octopoda: Octopodidae). Zootaxa 5060 (4): 589-594, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5060.4.8
