Last fall, a seafood shop owner in Marugame, Japan spotted this rare Octopus with nine tentacles. While he apparently boiled and sold the oddity to a “lucky customer”, I think he may have generated more marketing appeal if he had tried to pit it against the Henry the Hexapus or had it try out for Gimme Gimme Octopus.
Appropriately, via Pink Tentacle
gl3nk
It’s just a mutant… not a new breed. Would we call a human with an extra limb a nonhuman? Of course not. It’s just an octopus with a mutation.
Rich
Well, now-a-days we wouldn’t call a human with an extra limb ‘non-human’… but we sure might treat them that way, as in ages past.
Aea
Perhaps something to do with ‘non’ being the prefix for nine and ‘octo’ being the prefix for eight, although I could just be rambling here.
Thomas
I wonder if octopuses(?) make 9th tentacle jokes the way we make 3rd leg jokes.
Robert Seddon
My earlier attempt at answering this, with links, presumably fell prey to a URL-hating spam filter, but I think (‘octopus’ being from Greek) it woud be ‘enneapus’.
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