Verrill's Two-spot Octopus, Octopus bimaculatus

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Family Octopodidae

TROPICAL EASTERN PACIFIC

Octopus bimaculatus

Rock Quarry, Catalina, California, 25 feet	Rock Quarry, Catalina, California, 25 feet

VERRILL'S TWO-SPOT OCTOPUS

Common on rocky reefs. Iridescent blue false eye-spot composed of broken chain-links, the smaller but similar California Two-spot Octopus, Octopus bimaculoides, has eye-spot of unbroken chain links. Attains 32 inches. Southern California to Panama.