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Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Scientific name: Octopus rubescens

Taxonomy: Kingdom Animalia → Phylum Mollusca → Class Cephalopoda → Subclass Coleoidea → Superorder Octopodiformes → Order Octopoda → Suborder Incirrata → Superfamily Octopodoidea → Family Octopodidae → Genus Octopus

Common name: Red Octopus
Locations: Eastern Pacific
Group: Marine LifeInvertebratesOctopuses

Octopus can change color rapidly. At night, they tend to be light-colored. When illuminated in a dive light, they change color back to red.

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Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
The same octopus at night, after a few seconds in a dive light
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
At night
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
This one caught a crab
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Lingcod eating an octopus
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
Octopus rubescens (Red Octopus)
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