So how awesome is it that our first view of the seafloor on #OctopusFriday is an octopus. Exactly.
Just saying, "okay, I'm ready." "I'm ready for my close up."
That looks like a Bathypolypus. And Bathypolypus has the suckers in two series. Okay.
So it would be Bathypolypus pterasteridae.
Oh! Here's another octopus!
Oh, wow. It's like they're giving us a little show.
Here's another one, hold on.
Mike, would you be able to tell us what the usual size of an adult Bathypolypus is?
Are these young? Because they seem really small.
A large one, from the tip of its body, the mantle, to tip of the arms, a large one would be probably eight inches or so.
This is exactly where I'd expect to see Bathypolypus.
Every time I've seen them, they been in this sort of complex, but soft, sediment and habitat.
Octopus's garden. Yeah.