Looks like there is a competition for “Paul the Octopus” who used to predict the football world cup, researchers have found an unclassified pink female octopus deep down the Pacific. She is by far the cutest octopus and scientists are planning to name her as Opisthoteuthis Adorabilis. The mysterious cephalapod resembles the ghost from the Pac-Man, although she is not at all ghostly. California based researchers are on a hunt for a suitable Latin species designation name for the octopus.
Other than her adorable looks, we don’t have much information about her habitat, as per the available information — she is found in the deep cold waters and the studies conducted included 12 of them and all of these 12 were females. Interestingly, the specie prefers to spend more time at the bottom of the waters, laying on the sediment and move around only to find food and mates.
Stephanie Bush from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, said,“New species are discovered every year, not all of them get described, it can take a lot of time, years sometimes,”. Stephanie has been researching on the subject for a year now and is planning to submit a report to scientific review, so that they would grant an appropriate name to the specie, which is a genre of Flapjack octopus. She is also trying to breed a batch of octopus eggs, but these eggs develop at a snail speed due to the cold temperature they take time of up to two to three years.
This is not the first time that a specie has been named “Adorabilis”, there are other species such as a White-crested Coquette hummingbird who has been named as Lophornis Adorabilis. To justify the act of deeming species as adorable, Bush says,”I don’t see any obvious reason why it would be inappropriate … it’s easy to pronounce and popular with the public.”
For all those who want to see the cutie, they gotta dive into the Pacific between 200 and 600 meters, where the temperature would be 6 degrees Celsius (42 Fahrenheit).
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