Friday Cephalopod: Clingy bottletail
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: December 21, 2007 6:08 AM, by PZ Myers
Sepiadarium sp.
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Aww, cute!
Posted by: Meg | December 21, 2007 8:07 AM
It has a tail?
Posted by: BigBob | December 21, 2007 8:18 AM
How tiny is it? I love Cephalopods!!
Posted by: Tracy | December 21, 2007 8:20 AM
Pharyngulites may be interested in the following paper.
Hanlon, R.T., Conroy, L-A. and J.W. Forsythe. Mimicry and foraging behavior of two tropical sand-flat octopus species off North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biol. Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 93, Number 1, January 2008 , pp. 23-38(16).
Mimic octopus are very cool - and I'm extremely frutrated that my university library doesn't carry a subscription to this journal. That said, the research group's site looks pretty interesting, and has links to some pdfs of other recent papers by the authors.
I'll have to have a look through some of those references when I get the chance.
Posted by: artificialhabitat | December 21, 2007 8:22 AM
I can't see it. Turn on the light
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/20/tentacle-chandeliers.html
Posted by: k | December 21, 2007 8:23 AM
Speaking of clingy little suckers ... PZ's favorite education official has very suddenly left her post as Florida's K-12 chancellor: http://www.flascience.org/wp/?p=359
But the rejoicing can only last so long. David Gibbs, who had a role in the Terri Schiavo circus, has taken an interest in the fight over evolution in the Florida science standards: http://www.flascience.org/wp/?p=358
Posted by: Brandon | December 21, 2007 8:52 AM
Okay...I'm a cephalopod lover now...
What squishy fun!
Posted by: Amanda | December 21, 2007 9:07 AM
Great photo! Thanks for sharing this with us.
Posted by: K T Cat | December 21, 2007 9:50 AM
@artificialhabitat
I have access to the journal. If you are interested in the particular article (and it was not just a general complaint about your library) I can send it to you. My address is my pen name below (underscore instead of space) at bluewin.ch
Posted by: Don Quijote | December 21, 2007 10:05 AM
I coughed one of those up a fortnight ago. There's been some very weird colds doing the rounds this winter.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | December 21, 2007 12:40 PM