Australian Octo

[rossd]

Hi. Spotted this fellow today and was hoping for an ID.



I guess the head would be 10-14cm long. These photos were taken at low tide. I assume he only came out because his hideout was running out of water. The location is south-eastern coast of Australia.

Thanks for your help!

 

[Jean]

very hard to tell. BTW some Aussie octopus hunt out of water at low tide!

J

 

[rossd]

very hard to tell.

Oh really?

Well thanks anyway. There's 3 or 4 gloomies nearby, they're easy to identify since there's plenty of pics on the internet. This red guy came out at the same time every day for a while, but he wasn't there yesterday.

 

[DWhatley]

We have another member monitoring four of the gloomies that you might want to contact:
http://www.tonmo.com/community/index.php?threads/10117/#post-129248