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Friday Cephalopod: Study in Blue Cuttlefish

Category: CephalopodsOrganisms
Posted on: December 7, 2007 9:55 AM, by PZ Myers

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Sepia latimanus

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

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#1

Posted by: gg | December 7, 2007 10:00 AM

Wow. Utterly beautiful. That image would make a lovely piece of artwork for the wall (though I'm guessing the girlfriend would raise significant objections).

#2

Posted by: BMatthews | December 7, 2007 10:10 AM

You can totally get away with this as long as you call it the "cuddle-fish". Girls eat that up.
...
or you have a nerdy girlfriend like me

#3

Posted by: gg | December 7, 2007 10:14 AM

#2: I'll have to give that a try, though I think my girlfriend is catching on to my semantic trickery... :)

#4

Posted by: maxi | December 7, 2007 10:18 AM

That's pretty tentacular!

#5

Posted by: Cuttlefish | December 7, 2007 10:23 AM

Since we're speaking of beautiful cuttlefish pics,
There's another important one here:
Look fast, 'cos you'll see that the post gives a warning
These beauties might soon disappear.

http://scienceblogs.com/deepseanews/2007/12/how_much_do_you_like_big_cuttl.php

#6

Posted by: tyaddow | December 7, 2007 10:26 AM

I think a poem would be appropriate in here somewhere.....

#7

Posted by: zer0 | December 7, 2007 10:31 AM

If some mad scientist ever finds a way to graft cuttlefish eyes into humans, I'm so in line for that operation. I want to make my little Ws with pupils! They look so mean too when they get aggressive. It's like 100 times better than what we can do with our eyebrows to look mad.

#8

Posted by: Odonata | December 7, 2007 10:56 AM

Great photo! According to Wikipedia, sepia latimanus is the second largest cuttlefish species, and can grow to 50 cm in mantle length and 10 kg in weight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadclub_Cuttlefish

#9

Posted by: CitizenVA | December 7, 2007 12:02 PM

Beautiful! And I'm glad the Friday Cephalopod is back! I really missed it last week! :(

CVA

#10

Posted by: Chris' Wills | December 7, 2007 2:05 PM

As a lurker may I say;
Yay!!! Friday Cephalapod is back.

#11

Posted by: Christianjb | December 7, 2007 3:29 PM

That's a cute fish.

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