DreamScape
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are bimacs the type of octopus sold in food places as "baby octopus"? are they the only type with a pair of blue rings on their sides?
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OctoMonkey
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bimacs come in 2 flavours; bimaculatus and bimaculoides, they both have the eys spots, as do other octopuses like cyanea. But I think that only the bimacs have the blue, except the blue rings of course!
As far as baby octopuses as food are concerend it all just depends on which part of the world you come from . Different species inhabit different areas.
Colin
As far as baby octopuses as food are concerend it all just depends on which part of the world you come from . Different species inhabit different areas.
Colin
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Colin is right, there are a bunch of octopus that have ocelli( false eye spots). O, bimaculoices, O.bimacuilatus, O.fangsiao, O.exannulatus, O.cyanea, O.maya, O. oculifer are a few. There are no doubt others. There are several that have blue ocelli O.bimaculatus, O.bimaculoides, O.mototi and O.filosus are a few of them.
Perhaps the species you mention as being sold as baby octopus is O.aegina. Mark Norman states this specis is one of two that is trawled out of the Gulf of Thailand at more than 10,000 tons a year, frozen and exported around the world marketed under the name "Baby Octopus". It is then treated in fishery statistics as O.dollfusi.
O.aegina have no ocelli.
-chris:smokin:
Perhaps the species you mention as being sold as baby octopus is O.aegina. Mark Norman states this specis is one of two that is trawled out of the Gulf of Thailand at more than 10,000 tons a year, frozen and exported around the world marketed under the name "Baby Octopus". It is then treated in fishery statistics as O.dollfusi.
O.aegina have no ocelli.
-chris:smokin:
