> Finally, the group of people interested in having a species description may not be very large; and the group willing and able to create one even smaller.

Perhaps, but the caption on the picture in the article [0] says that it was taken at "an aquarium at the California Academy of Sciences", which sounds like the kind of place where octopus scientists hang out. And the article cited in Wikipedia [1] has quite a few authors, which makes me think that there's something more complicated going on here.

[0]: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larger_Pacific_Strip...

[1]: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0134152