Is a Nine-Tentacled Octopus a Nonopus?

Posted by Anita in Animal on May 11, 2008 at 10:50 pm


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


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6 comments to "Is a Nine-Tentacled Octopus a Nonopus?"

  1. gl3nk
    May 12th, 2008 at 8:49 am

    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.

  2. Pat J
    May 12th, 2008 at 9:33 am

    It's the four-leaf-clover of the cephalopod clique.

  3. Rich
    May 12th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    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.

  4. Aea
    May 12th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    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.

  5. Thomas
    May 12th, 2008 at 12:32 pm

    I wonder if octopuses(?) make 9th tentacle jokes the way we make 3rd leg jokes.

  6. Robert Seddon
    May 12th, 2008 at 4:44 pm

    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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