LPSO exhibits three main body color patterns that include completely pale, completely dark brown, and a dark brown and white pattern that is referred to as "stripe-bar-spot".
When displaying the stripe-bar-spot body color pattern, LPSO is observed to have bar and stripe patterns that alternate between brown and white across its head and mantle, and dark brown with white spots over its arm crown and arms.
The pattern can serve as a unique identifier as it varies among individuals.
Though LPSO has similar body color patterns to other octopuses like Octopus chierchiae, Octopus zonatus, Abdopus spp.,
Thaumoctopus mimicus, and Wunderpus photogenicus, the body patterns it exhibits are unique to the species.
LPSO exhibits three main body color patterns that include completely pale, completely dark brown, and a dark brown and white pattern that is referred to as "stripe-bar-spot". When displaying the stripe-bar-spot body color pattern, LPSO is observed to have bar and stripe patterns that alternate between brown and white across its head and mantle, and dark brown with white spots over its arm crown and arms. The pattern can serve as a unique identifier as it varies among individuals. Though LPSO has similar body color patterns to other octopuses like Octopus chierchiae, Octopus zonatus, Abdopus spp., Thaumoctopus mimicus, and Wunderpus photogenicus, the body patterns it exhibits are unique to the species.
Larger Pacific striped octopus