At the aquarium in Muroran City, Hokkaido, a rare octopus called "Omendako" that lives in the deep sea spawns and the eggs are open to the public.
The Muroran Public Aquarium bred Omendako landed off the coast of Tomakomai, and on May 30, 26 eggs about 1 cm in size were confirmed in the aquarium.
Opisthoteuthis caliper inhabits the deep sea from Hokkaido to Ibaraki prefecture, but the detailed ecology is unknown, and according to the aquarium, it is the first time in Japan that the spawning of opisthoteuthis caliper can be confirmed in the aquarium.
The octopus died after laying eggs, but the aquarium displays three eggs in an aquarium.
Other eggs will be sent to universities and other aquariums for use in octopus ecology research.
A woman in her 60s who visited said, "The first exhibition in Japan is amazing. I want you to succeed in hatching and become a baby."
Kayo Takayama, a keeper of Muroran Public Aquarium, said, "I don't know if it's a fertilized egg or an unfertilized egg, and when it will hatch, but I want you to come and see the precious eggs while keeping in mind that they are fertilized eggs." I was talking.