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==Plural==

==Plural==

While "octopi" is the popularly use plural form of "octopus" and is sometimes listed as such in dictionaries <ref name="m-w">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopus</ref>, it is incorrect <ref name="fowl">Fowler, HW (1997) '''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''' Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1853263184</ref><ref name="colb">http://www.colby.edu/biology/BI237/Lab/Tipstowritingscience.doc</ref>, with the strictly accepted plurals being "octopuses" and "octopodes".  Scholars working with cephalopods have settled on the usage of "octopuses" as plural for "octopus" in the narrow sense refering to species within the family Octopodidae<ref name="math">Mather, JA & Anderson, RC (1993) Personalities of octopuses (''Octopus rubescens''). ''Journal of Comparative Psychology'' '''107''':336-340</ref><ref name="vill">Villanueva, R; Nozias, C & Boletzky, SV (1995) The planktonic life of octopuses. ''Nature'' '''377''':107</ref><ref name="colb">Sumbre, G; Fiorito, G; Flash, T & Hochner,B (2006) Octopuses use a Human-like Strategy to Control Precise Point-topoint Arm Movements.  ''Current Biology'' '''16''':767-772</ref> and "octopds" the plural to refer more broadly to all species within the order Octopoda<ref name="Voig">Voight, JR (1997) Cladistic analysis of the octopods based on anatomical characteristics.  ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' '''63''':311-325 </ref><ref name="lewy">Lewy, Z (1996) Octopods; nude ammonoids that survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundry mass extinction. ''Geology'' '''24''':627-630</ref><ref name="kub">Kubodera, T & Okutani, T (2004) Eledonine octopods from the Southern Ocean: systematics and distribution. ''Antarctic Science'' '''6''':205-214</ref>.

While "octopi" is the popularly use plural form of "octopus" and is sometimes listed as such in dictionaries <ref name="m-w">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/octopus</ref>, it is incorrect <ref>

*Fowler, HW (1997) '''A Dictionary of Modern English Usage''' Wordsworth Editions. ISBN 1853263184

*http://www.colby.edu/biology/BI237/Lab/Tipstowritingscience.doc</ref>, with the strictly accepted plurals being "octopuses" and "octopodes".  Scholars working with cephalopods have settled on the usage of "octopuses" as plural for "octopus" in the narrow sense refering to species within the family Octopodidae<ref>

*Mather, JA & Anderson, RC (1993) Personalities of octopuses (''Octopus rubescens''). ''Journal of Comparative Psychology'' '''107''':336-340

*Villanueva, R; Nozias, C & Boletzky, SV (1995) The planktonic life of octopuses. ''Nature'' '''377''':107

*Sumbre, G; Fiorito, G; Flash, T & Hochner,B (2006) Octopuses use a human-like strategy to control precise point-to-point arm movements.  ''Current Biology'' '''16''':767-772</ref> and "octopds" the plural to refer more broadly to all species within the order Octopoda<ref>

*Voight, JR (1997) Cladistic analysis of the octopods based on anatomical characteristics.  ''Journal of Molluscan Studies'' '''63''':311-325  

*Lewy, Z (1996) Octopods; nude ammonoids that survived the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundry mass extinction. ''Geology'' '''24''':627-630

*Kubodera, T & Okutani, T (2004) Eledonine octopods from the Southern Ocean: systematics and distribution. ''Antarctic Science'' '''6''':205-214</ref>.

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