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Octopus bimaculoides observed at Nicholson Point in La Jolla, California in August, 2024. Close-up of the chromatophores on Octopus bimaculoides. The California two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculoides), often simply called a "bimac", is an octopus species native to many parts of the Pacific Ocean including the coast of California. One can ...
Over a month after mating, Giant Pacific octopuses lay eggs. The species can lay 180,000 eggs in a single clutch, while Octopus rubescens clutches number up to 45,000 eggs and O. vulgaris clutches can number as much as 500,000 eggs. [78]: 75 Fertilised octopus eggs are layed as strings and within a shelter.
Scavengers and other organisms often attempt to eat octopus eggs, even when the female is present to protect them. Giant Pacific octopus paralarvae are preyed upon by many other zooplankton and filter feeders. Marine mammals, such as harbor seals, sea otters, and sperm whales depend upon the giant Pacific octopus as a source of food.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a bipartisan bill banning octopus farming in the state. California is now the second state to do so.
[13] [14] After the eggs are fertilized, the females lay their eggs in a sheltered area protected by rocks. The amount of eggs laid depends on the size on the female, but typically the number of eggs are very high, with the average being approximately 20,000 eggs, about 100 to 250 per strand.
Octopus californicus (commonly the North Pacific bigeye octopus or orange bigeye octopus) [2] [3] is an octopus in the family Octopodidae. [4] It is provisionally assigned to the genus Octopus, but some scholars have concluded it belongs in other genera. [5] [6] O. californicus was first documented by S. Stillman Berry in 1911. [7]
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