Cephalopods Pictures and Movies Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Benthoctopus Dr. M December 7, 2007 Image credit: Image: (c) 2002 MBARI / NOAA. Red octopus (Benthoctopus sp.) hunting on Davidson Seamount. Deep-water octopus often hunt snails, crabs, and other small animals on the seafloor. Share the post "Friday Deep-Sea Picture: Benthoctopus" FacebookBlueskyShare…Shares Related PostsPouring Oil on ‘Troubled Waters’Dinner with a MegavertebrateWhen Spider Crabs Meet SubsFIU to take over Aquarius ReefBaseCitizen Science to track lingering oil in the Gulf