P. Z. Myers posts a Friday cephalopod, and this unnamed Octopus species is just lovely, drawing a torrent of new terms to describe it (see comments).
Mandelbrotopus! Octomandelpus! Cephalbrotopod! Fractalpod! Fractalpus! Iteratopod! Octomandelfractalpusopod!
—Martin Richard

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