The physiology and ethology of octopuses and the cephalopods in general is the subject of a very extensive bibliography.  The following book by M.J. Wells presents current scientific knowledge on octopuses and the one by K.C Harmon does the same for a wider, non-specialist readership.

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• Wells, M. J. (2013). Octopus: physiology and behaviour of an advanced invertebrate. Springer Science & Business Media.

• Harmon, C. K. (2013). Octopus!: The Most Mysterious Creature in the Sea.
   

A number of blogs and popular science sites also deal with the fascinating facts about the octopus.  Indicatively consult the following:
 

• Newer R., 2013.  Ten curious facts about octopuses, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-curious-facts-about-octopuses-7625828/#:~:text=7)%20Octopuses%20have%20blue%20blood,not%20much%20oxygen%20is%20around.

• Rasmussen, C., 2021. Octopus lifespans: how long do octopuses live, A-Z Animals. https://a-z-animals.com/blog/octopus-lifespans-how-long-do-octopuses-live/

• Spenser, E., 2020. Get to know the paper Nautilus, Ocean Currents. https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2020/10/05/paper-nautilus/
   

Among the many publications on Marine Style Pottery, the work of P. Mountjoy is most frequently cited.
 

• Mountjoy, A.P., 1984.  The Marine Style Pottery of LM IB / LH IIA: Towards a Corpus, BSA 79, 161-219.

• Mountjov, P. (1985). Ritual associations for LM IB Marine Style vases. Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, 11(1), 231-242.
   

For the various marine animals depicted in the art of the Bronze Age Aegean, including the paper nautilus and the octopus see
 

• Vanschoonwinkel, J. 1996. Les Animaux dans l’art minoen.In D. S. Reese (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Fauna of Crete and Its First Settlers (Monographs in World Archaeology 28), Madison, 351–412.
   

For the various views on the meaning of the profusion of marine animate and inanimate elements on Marine style pottery see
 

• Müller, W., 1997, Kretische Tongefässe mit Meeresdekor. Entwicklung und Stellung innerhalb der Feinen Keramik von Spätminoisch I B auf Kreta, Berlin.

• Driessen, J., & MacDonald, C. F., 2000. The eruption of the Santorini volcano and its effects on Minoan Crete. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171(1), 81-93.

• Bicknell, P., 2000. Late Minoan IB marine ware, the marine environment of the Aegean, and the Bronze Age eruption of the Thera volcano. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 171(1), 95-103.

• Mylona, D., 2020. Marine resources and coastal communities in the Late Bronze Age southern Aegean: a seascape approach. American Journal of Archaeology, 124(2), 179-213.
   

All the most recent research on the Argonaut representations on the wall paintings of the Palace of Nestor at Pylos can be found in the following publication:
 

• Egan, E. C., & Brecoulaki, H., 2015. Marine Iconography at the Palace of Nestor and the Emblematic Use of the Argonaut. In Brecoulaki, H., Davis, J. L., & Stocker, S. R. (eds). Mycenaean Wall Painting in Context: New Discoveries, Old Finds Reconsidered. National Hellenic Research Foundation/Institute of Historical Research, 292-313.