Species
Octopus rubescens (East pacific red octopus)
Octopus rubescens. Photo: (c) seabassfishboi, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Octopus rubescens (Commonly the East Pacific red octopus, also known as the ruby octopus, a preferred common name due to the abundance of octopus species colloquially known as red octopus) is the most commonly occurring shallow-water octopus on much of the North American West Coast, and a ubiquitous benthic predator in these habitats. Its range extends from the southern Gulf of California at least to the Gulf of Alaska, but may also occur in the western…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Class: Cephalopoda (Cephalopods)
- Subclass: Coleoidea (Octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes)
- Superorder: Octopodiformes (Octopuses and vampire squids)
- Order: Octopoda (Octopuses)
- Suborder: Incirrata (Incirrate octopuses)
- Superfamily: Octopodoidea (Typical octopuses, giant octopuses, and allies)
- Family: Octopodidae (Typical octopuses)
- Genus: Octopus
- Species: Octopus rubescens (East pacific red octopus)
- Genus: Octopus
- Family: Octopodidae (Typical octopuses)
- Superfamily: Octopodoidea (Typical octopuses, giant octopuses, and allies)
- Suborder: Incirrata (Incirrate octopuses)
- Order: Octopoda (Octopuses)
- Superorder: Octopodiformes (Octopuses and vampire squids)
- Subclass: Coleoidea (Octopuses, squids, and cuttlefishes)
- Class: Cephalopoda (Cephalopods)
- Phylum: Mollusca (Molluscs)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)


















