Seems the octopus expert is having trouble identifying this octopus I found just north of V. Point on the 14th, These pictures are very interesting. My first instinct is that it is not an Octopus rubescens [East Pacific red octopus]. Something about it just doesn’t seem right, but it’s more of a gestalt thing that I’m basing this on. She suggested that it may be a California Lilliput Octopus, a species that lives in the holdfast of giant kelp, but from my images she couldnt tell the size of the animal. The size of the one I found was much larger than the 2-3cm maximum size of the California Lilliput Octopus. Does anyone have any thoughts on what this might be? Another example of an out of place visitor to the Shores canyon?
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:26:13 +0000
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