California Two-spot Octopus
Octopus bimaculoides
Its eight arms have rows of suckers on the inner surface. In a study using ten wild-caught animals, researchers recorded 16,563 arm deformations in two hours of video.[2]
Size and lifespan
- Mantle length
- Reported size 8.5 cm[3]
Appearance
Each of its eight arms has suckers along the inner surface and tapers toward the tip.[2]
Life
It reaches out with its eight arms to touch nearby objects.[2]
Ten octopuses collected off southern California were filmed in laboratory tanks. Bending, twisting, elongating and shortening were recorded in all eight arms and all three arm regions.[2]
Places
Observed places · Off southern California (collection site)[2]
The wild-caught animals used in the study were collected off southern California.
Sources
- Catalogue of Life 2026-09-25 XR
Catalogue of Life · 2026-10-13
- Octopus arms exhibit exceptional flexibility
Scientific Reports / Springer Nature · 2026-10-25
- MOBS 2.0 (Magnapinna): explicitly identified invertebrate dimensions (McClain et al., 2026)
McClain et al. / Zenodo and MOBS_OPEN · 2026-10-27