Monday, February 16, 2009
octopus @ terumbu raya 09Feb2009
octopus @ terumbu raya 09Feb2009 from BeachBum on Vimeo.
This small octopus shot out from below a clump of sargassum and swam towards a rock. It's colour effortlessly changed from a dark red to a pale mottled pattern to fit the rock it swam to. It quickly slid below the rock to hide.
My guess is that the one observed in the clip was a two-spot octopus.
Read more about the types of Singapore's octopus here :
http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/cephalopoda/twospot.htm
http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/cephalopoda/smooth.htm
http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/cephalopoda/octopusnoid.htm
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