MRI used for non-invasive description of new octopus species

Abstract

In the North Pacific Ocean, the Emperor Seamounts are named for Japanese emperors. A new species of dumbo octopus (‘dumbo’ because its paired fins remind one of the ears of Disney’s flying elephant; National Geographic video of dumbo octopus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4pqu5FTaI&ab_channel= NationalGeographic) found there is proposed to have the English name ‘Emperor dumbo’. In the language of the German scientists who describe this new octopus, the name would be ‘Kaiserdumbo’.