Sighting 3381263
6 Hammer Octopus at Merimbula, NSW
Identification history
| Octopus tetricus | 6 Mar 2025 | Jimbobo | ||
| Octopus australis | 7 Apr 2018 | offshore | ||
| Octopus australis | 18 Sep 2017 | AaronClausen | ||
| Octopus pallidus | 18 Sep 2017 | AaronClausen | ||
| Unverified | 17 Sep 2017 | AaronClausen |
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User's notes
Looks like he's washed up in the low tide. Was definitely alive and breathing. We didn't disturb him. Hopefully he goes back out in high tide.
3 comments
Jennyncmg
wrote:
18 Sep 2017
Octopus pallidus would have been my guess but I don't know enough about octopuses to be confident.
AaronClausen
wrote:
19 Sep 2017
Thanks Jenny. Mandy from the Australian Museum emailed me and suggested it is probably Octopus australis, so I've added that as a new suggestion too.
Location information
- Places Merimbula, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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Collections
AaronClausen NatureMapr South Coast Octopuses, Squids (Cephalopoda) Sea Shells, Sea Slugs, Octopuses & allies (Mollusca) Marine Invertebrates Featured Octopus australis
Species information
- Octopus australis Scientific name
- Hammer Octopus Common name
- Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- 7.16m Recorded at altitude
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- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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