Like most octopus species, the blue-lined octopus follows a reproductive pattern known as semelparity—mating once before dying. Males perish shortly after copulation. Females, once their eggs hatch, ...

Like most octopus species, blue-lined octopuses showed semelparity — a reproductive strategy in which an organism reproduces only once in its lifetime, typically producing a large number of ...

This is called semelparity, and its alternative (living to reproduce repeatedly) is called iteroparity. In plants, the terms monocarpy and polycarpy are sometimes used instead of semelparity and ...