Not usually heavily textured, it has several common colors, such as grey with yellow splotches, and uses highly developed crypsis, which is camouflage or color-changing to match the environment.

Chromatophores are elastic pigment sacs with muscle fibers attached by which they can expand and contract.

The other aspect to cephalopod camouflage is the brain, which contains nerves coated in chromatophore fibers, controlling coloration patterning.

[5] O. bimaculoides are found in coastal waters, in the eastern Pacific along mid- and southern-California and the western side of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.

[7] Since these octopuses do not live for long, they mature rapidly and can hunt for food to feed themselves right after hatching.

In recent years new technology, such as genome sequencing, has provided new information on the large amounts of clustered protocadherins (PCDH) in O. bimaculoides.

The study showed that O. bimaculatus always moves from one den to another every few days, and likely to avoid predation, the octopuses varied their daytime movement patterns and the distances they travel.

[12] From stable isotope analysis to look at the variation in diets of octopuses living in marine protected areas, versus non-protected sites.

The researchers discovered that the octopuses living in protected areas have more diverse diets.