Lembeh octopus

Here is an octopus from Lembeh. The picture is from approximately 5 meters of water on a reef. No sandy area in the vicinity. Anyone?

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Bent

To me it looks like an octopus I recently videoed in Lembeh, which I have been informed is probably an Abdopus aculeatus. I do not know if it has a common name. we have been calling it a Shaggy Octopus. It can change colour very rapidly to match it's background, and can 'grow' hairs to complete it's camouflage. We see them from time to time, but usually on sand.

Link to video

To me it looks like an octopus I recently videoed in Lembeh, which I have been informed is probably an Abdopus aculeatus. I do not know if it has a common name. we have been calling it a Shaggy Octopus. It can change colour very rapidly to match it's background, and can 'grow' hairs to complete it's camouflage. We see them from time to time, but usually on sand.

 

Link to video

Thanks. That sure could be it. It did some impressive changes between smooth and hairy, and I also got the idea of a hairy octopus, which it obviously wasn´t. Maybe next time.

I also have video of what I think is one of these from Lembeh. I'm calling it a "spiny octopus" (aculeatus means spiny or prickly, as used in spiny eel, spiny anteater etc.).

Humann and DeLoach call this "algae octopus" in their recent Tropical Pacific Reef Creature Identification guide and a few websites have now picked up on that name, so that's what I'm now using as the common name.