Bimac
Octopus bimaculoides
- Class
- Cephalopod
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 2,130
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
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 identify the species by the circular blue eyespots on each side of its head. Bimacs usually live to be about two years old. They are closely related to Verrill's two-spot octopus (Octopus bimaculatus). In 2015, O. bimaculoides became the first octopus to have a fully sequenced genome.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “California two-spot octopus”.