To save you the google search, it's about "tennis ball size" according to https://30a.com/larger-pacific-striped-octopus/ . Somebody should add that to the wiki.

The species was first documented in the 1970s and, being fairly new to scientific observation, has yet to be scientifically described. Because of this, LPSO has no official scientific name.

Is that a joke? It takes over 50 years to come up with a scientific name for a species?

Unless they actually meant Colombia. But peer review would certainly catch that.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4534201/

Some will say that AI can solve this, as is the fashion. But so far the things people are interested in doing with the new potential for synthesizing and translating animal sounds does not inspire any confidence[0].

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-04/ai-s-next...