Dantas, Renato Junqueira de Souza http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4545-1396
Leite, Tatiana Silva
de Albuquerque, Cristiano Queiroz
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Ciências do Mar II - 23038.004807/2014-01)
Article History
Received: 14 January 2021
Accepted: 8 October 2021
First Online: 21 November 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All those involved in this research and manuscript preparation consented to participate.
: All authors read and approved the final version of this manuscript and consented to publish it.
: Fieldwork was performed at a no-take marine protected area (Rocas Atoll Biological Reserve) in accordance with ethical international standards for the care and use of wild animals and under the supervision of Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio−MMA), SISBio research permit No. 10706−10. Also, as Brazil has no legislation on the welfare of cephalopods and methods for their humane killing, octopuses were euthanized following Directive 2010/63/EU (see Fiorito et al. CitationRef removed for the complete guidelines).