pale octopus

Octopus pallidus, the pale octopus, is a medium-sized species of octopus endemic to the temperate coastal waters of southern Australia. It is the target of a commercial trap fishery in Bass Strait and has been the subject of substantial research into cephalopod reproductive biology, vision and age determination.
The species was described in 1885 by the British zoologist W. E. Hoyle from material collected during the Challenger expedition.