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Friday Cephalopod: a glass squid

Category: Organisms
Posted on: August 4, 2006 9:04 AM, by PZ Myers

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Cranchia scabra

Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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#1

Hm, transparent outer layer (skin?). That's certainly odd. Are the floaty things inside it organs? In particular, I see it has eyes. Where's the rest of its nervous system?

Posted by: Keith Douglas | August 4, 2006 9:48 AM

#2

Through a glass, squidly...
See food?
OK, I'll go...

Posted by: Doozer | August 4, 2006 10:27 AM

#3

FRAUD! That's not real glass.

Here's a real glass squid.

Posted by: quork | August 4, 2006 10:37 AM

#4

It looks like a lightbulb.

Posted by: j | August 4, 2006 10:48 AM

#5

I sure hope I don't see one in my glass this friday night...

Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson | August 4, 2006 11:25 AM

#6

Is the glass squid half empty, half full or too big?

Posted by: TomMil | August 4, 2006 11:35 AM

#7

In case you ever decide to change the name of your blog: Dances With Squid only shows up on a few sites.

Posted by: quork | August 4, 2006 3:19 PM

#8

pelagic/planktivorous, I'm guessing?

Posted by: CCP | August 4, 2006 3:37 PM

#9

PZ,

Your Friday Cephalopods inspired me to purchase Mark Norman's book. Having read it, it's got me to wondering: is the Flying Spaghetti Monster a cephalopod? I mean if you stripped the skin off a Football Octopus it might look much like the FSM (but with the the meatballs arranged longitudinally rather than transversally).

Posted by: Evan | August 4, 2006 5:31 PM

#10

But where do you *plug* it in?

*wink*

Posted by: Karen | August 4, 2006 7:09 PM

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