This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Nematogens and vermiform embryos of a new species of Dicyema are described from an octopus collected off Veracruz, México. Dicyema shorti n.

“Why do octopuses have eight arms?” asked a young patron from the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. Octopuses are mysterious. For example, they belong to the shell-covered mollusk phylum, but have ...

Sy Montgomery has written 19 previous books about animals of all kinds, but for her latest, “The Soul of an Octopus,” she found herself researching an entirely new phylum. “I have thought for a long ...