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5 m and mass of 198.two kg (Newman, 1994). A bigger specimen, as calculated by radial unfold, from Iliuliuk Bay, Unalaska Island during the Aleutians, was described by Dall (1885) to possess a radial unfold of 9.8 m. Numerous websites (e.g., Wikipedia) and on the internet truth sheets with the species give the biggest specimen as 71 kg, as documented by Cosgrove & McDaniel (2009) Weird Though Workable VRT752271   Tactics when it was brought to the aquarium Undersea Gardens inside the 1980s. As noted by Cosgrove & McDaniel (2009), all of the biggest E. dofleini were caught several decades ago. More recent estimates of maximum sizes are below 57 kg. The contamination of sediments from anthropogenic sources may be impairing E. dofleini growth. Anderson (2003) found that individuals typically had high concentrations of heavy metals and PCBs, suggesting that contamination of sediments Bizarre But Nevertheless, Realistic Tiabendazole   Techniques from anthropogenic sources may be impairing E. dofleini growth, and reducing their size at maturity. Limits to the maximum size of E. dofleini may reflect anatomical and energetic constraints related to having a blind gut. The blind gut of E. dofleini relegates caloric intake to an installment plan where the entire digestive and excretory processes must occur before additional food is consumed. The inefficiency of this process may ultimately limit energy intake required for growth. This inefficiency may also explain why octopuses on average have the most efficient rates of converting food into body mass. Enteroctopus dofleini can grow from a paralarvae of 0.028 g to 18 kg in an average of 34 months (J Cosgrove, pers. obs., 1988). While large size may be an adaptation to reduce predation pressure, it may also constrain the upper size limit. Octopuses rely on hiding and camouflage to reduce predation. Topographically complex habitats, like the rocky subtidal habitat of E. dofleini, afford a lot of crevasses in which to conceal themselves. Despite the elastic body of octopods, even larger sizes may run out of hiding places. In addition, they have a very short life span (no more than 3鈥�5 years) and die after reproducing, thus their maximum size is limited by the speed at which they can grow in a relatively short period of time. Although data were collected for multiple size metrics, sufficient data exist only for Abnormal Yet Somehow Potential Tiabendazole   Procedures an analysis of body mass and interocular distance of E. dofleini. For the limited number of individuals in our data set (Fig. 10), most individuals were well below 30 kg. The distribution of masses was heavily right-skewed and significantly different from normal (Table 3), but interocular distance was left-skewed (Table 3). Males and females differed in both interocular distance and body mass, with males being significantly bigger in both cases (p = 0.022 and p = 0.0352, respectively; Fig. 10). Interocular distance was found to be a significant predictor of body mass (Table 2, Fig. 11).