Table 5. Contemporary effective population size.

Average and 95% confidence intervals for the contemporary effective population size (N_e) for three species of octopus. Locations were pooled according to the results of the genetic assignment of species (Fig. 2). N_e was estimated with two methods, including linkage disequilibrium (LD; lowest allele frequency used 0.05 and 0.02 respectively) and Molecular coancestry (M_C).

	LDNE 0.05	LDNE 0.02	MC
O. bimaculoides	9.7 (6.4–13.9)	17.9 (13.6–24.0)	9.9 (3.6–19.2)
O. bimaculatus	190.2 (129.2–324.2)	252.7 (182.8–388.8)	∞ (∞–∞)
O. hubbsorum	104.8 (69.9–181.3)	131.4 (95.7–197.1)	28.1 (6.8–64.3)