Hello cephalofolks, I'm very happy to announce the newest addition to the TONMO volunteer staff, Peter Kilian (@pkilian)! Peter currently works as a research assistant and aquatic animal technician at Harvard. We are thrilled to add another hands-on cephalopod expert to our team, supporting our great community of cephalopod enthusiasts and adventurers. You can read Peter's bio on our Meet The Staff page. Please join me in welcoming Peter to the TONMO den!

Can anyone identify what kind of octopus my friend Maurice is? It was sold as octopus species and may come from Indonesia/Bali. I know that my photos are not the best.

Good Morning All, I have some very sad and unfortunate news. When we woke up this morning, we saw our male Caribbean Reef Octopus, Turq, had passed away and we are trying to find out why. One thing we had noticed is when we would have the wave pumps on he would occasionally stick his tentacles in and it would give him quite the surprise and then he would leave it alone but we noticed he had done this on more than one occasion. We actually found him caught in one of the pumps so we don't know if […]

What: TONMOCON VIII, the biennial cephalopod conferenceWhen: October 16-18, 2020Where: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MAREGISTER HERE​ More details regarding agenda and attractions will be forthcoming. For now, you can expect that "meals" include the following:Friday, 10/16/2020: Dinner, evening mixer Saturday, 10/17/2020: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, coffee breaks, evening mixer & lobster boil Sunday, 10/18/2020: Breakfast, Lunch, coffee break We can expect a full day […]

This is a review of the current status of ceph molecular data collection. @gjbarord is currently doing DNA work with the nautilus and hopefully will post where the information can be accessed once it is stored. The contribution of molecular data to our understanding of cephalopod evolution and systematics: a review A. Louise Allcock,A. Lindgren, J. M. Strugnell 2013 (subscription) Abstract The first DNA sequence of a cephalopod was published in 1983 and the first molecular paper […]