A hexapus, not a six-legged octopus

He is an octopus, but this new recruit at Anglesey Sea Zoo is a couple of legs short of the usual eight.

Staff had never seen anything like their six-legged arrival, and have christened him Henry the hexapus.

He was found in a lobster pot off north Wales, and they believe his shortage of limbs is the result of a birth defect, rather than an accident.



Henry will go on display with other octopuses in a new exhibition called Suckers at Blackpool Sea Life Centre.

Staff only realised his deficiencies, however, when he stuck himself to a glass display tank.

Displays supervisor Carey Duckhouse said: "We've scoured the internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus."