Octopus ID

Hi Guys,

Was "penning" an article for a magazine and was a little confused on the ID. These were all taken on a night dive in Dumaguete, same octopus.

Would be grateful for help ID

Thanks

Diggy

Check out Veined (Coconut) octopus, Octopus marginatus

Especially if it was on the smaller side and near a coconut

Check out Veined (Coconut) octopus, Octopus marginatus

 

Especially if it was on the smaller side and near a coconut

Thanks will check this out

I agree that it looks like a coconut octopus.

However, I also think that the blue color might be an artifact of post-processing of the image. That precise shade of blue appears in the sand in each image, and in the third image you can see it clearly in the rocks and plastic behind the octopus. This is a color that is not common in environments like that, and is unlikely to appear naturally in so many places.