New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters near Galapagos Islands

May 25, 2026 - 14:15
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New Species of Octopus Discovered in Deep Waters near Galapagos Islands
Microeledone galapagensis. Image credit: Voight et al., doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5814.4.5.

A single female specimen, collected 1,773 m below the surface near Darwin Island, has been described as a new species of deep-sea octopus, and it doesn’t fit neatly into the Megaleledonidae family it belongs to, forcing a revision of the textbook definition.

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