Friday Cephalopod: Face full of suckers
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: October 20, 2006 7:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Argonauta nodosa
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Funky.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | October 20, 2006 7:24 AM
Wow, that's so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it!
Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer...
Posted by: Fernando Magyar | October 20, 2006 7:25 AM
I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this... thing. Was it submitted to some kind of... compression ?
Posted by: nat | October 20, 2006 8:02 AM
Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye.
Posted by: Snail | October 20, 2006 8:17 AM
"I do not understand the rest of this... thing."
Seems you're not alone... e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html
Posted by: David Harmon | October 20, 2006 8:18 AM
That would make a great head for a movie alien.
Posted by: Toni Riga | October 20, 2006 8:38 AM
I misread the caption as "argonauta medusa" the first time.
Posted by: SteveC | October 20, 2006 9:51 AM
Wowzers!
A mother argonaut!
Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi?
Posted by: Stanton | October 20, 2006 10:59 AM