 With big round eyes, a pretty pink color and a small, squishy body, an octopus never looked cuter. "As someone that's describing the species you get to pick what the specific name is," Stephanie Bush, postdoctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, who is working to describe the octopus, told Science Friday. “One of the thoughts I had was making it Opisthoteuthis adorabilis — because they’re really cute.” 
 
 The naming process for a newly discovered species is long and complex and can take several years. This rare cephalopod belongs to the Opisthoteuthis genus and might look familiar as it’s the same genus as Pearl, the pink flapjack octopus (Opisthoteuthis californiana) in the Pixar film Finding Nemo. Opisthoteuthis specimens have been collected as far back as 1990 and inhabit the deep sea along the California coast at depths of up to 1,476 feet. The wee octopus is known for the distinctive webbing between its tentacles, which allows it to float like a parachute while using the fins on its mantle to steer.
– The Huffington Post thinks it looks like "a cross between a Pac-Man ghost and a Pokemon creature." But it will be a researcher at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institution who will get the honor of bestowing a name on the little octopus with huge eyes. (Or "puppy dog eyes" as the San Francisco Chronicle puts it.) And don't underestimate the cuteness factor: “As someone that’s describing the species, you get to pick what the specific name is,” Stephanie Bush tells Science Friday. “One of the thoughts I had was making it Opisthoteuthis adorabilis because they’re really cute.” (A newly discovered frog looks very, very familiar.)