In the video below, deep-sea octopus expert Janet Voight with the Field Museum, discusses sex in octopods focusing on Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis. This ghostly looking octopus is only known from hydrothermal vents at 2600-2650m on the East Pacific Rise at 13 degrees north. The ethereal appearance comes from a combination of the eyes being reduced and the body lacking pigment and chromatophores, resulting in a translucent skin.
Join Janet as she takes us on an tour of of the anatomy and sex of Vulcanoctopus hydrothermalis.
I want a hot tub now…