Octopus californicus (commonly the North Pacific bigeye octopus or orange bigeye octopus)[2][3] is an octopus in the family Octopodidae.[4] It is provisionally assigned to the genus Octopus, but some scholars have concluded it belongs in other genera.[5][6]O. californicus was first documented by S. Stillman Berry in 1911.[7]
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