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Friday Cephalopod: Orange bottletail
Category: Organisms
Posted on: February 13, 2009 11:08 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Frasque | February 13, 2009 11:22 AM
Is that a fully grown animal? It's so cute I want to pinch its cheeks and feed it candy.
Posted by: Brownian
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February 13, 2009 11:33 AM
Er, I'm fully grown. Can I get in on that offer?
Posted by: Jeff Eyges
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February 13, 2009 11:35 AM
Huge eyes for such a little fellow. What's his vision like?
Posted by: Rob | February 13, 2009 11:36 AM
cephlapods rule! And Mark's enthusiasm for them is truely infectious!
Posted by: Sili | February 13, 2009 11:38 AM
I'm sorry, but there's no way in hell that's a living animal.
It looks like something from the jelly-counterpart to CakeWrecks.
Posted by: JD | February 13, 2009 11:39 AM
Is that David Berlinski?
Posted by: Keenacat | February 13, 2009 11:41 AM
Aaaaaawww,
that is so CUTE. I think it looks like a tiny, orangey elephant baby.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | February 13, 2009 12:03 PM
So... wait. This is a species of cuttlefish with the common name "bottletail squid"?
No respect.
Posted by: Chris Davis | February 13, 2009 12:44 PM
Wotta sweet little mitelington!
Posted by: PaulM | February 13, 2009 1:24 PM
He/she's a cutie... I like the way her/his little tentacles are curled up.
Posted by: Nentuaby | February 13, 2009 1:29 PM
Cuttlefish, OM:
Actually, your post is the first use of the word "squid" I can find in this thread?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | February 13, 2009 1:54 PM
sucker's orange all right
Posted by: SEF | February 13, 2009 2:15 PM
That's really very orange. I wonder how it has escaped being used in certain adverts ...
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | February 13, 2009 2:18 PM
Nentuaby--where did I claim that I was complaining about anything in this thread?
I googled the latin, found several pages on the bottletail. The "Sepiadarium" led me to believe it was a cuttlefish, but most pages called it a squid. Reading through several led me to understand that its common name is indeed the "bottletail squid" (some sites included "bottletail cuttlefish" but that was decidedly in the minority).
I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore ("birds of a feather" is vertebracentric) with squid!
Posted by: Notorious P.A.T. | February 13, 2009 2:39 PM
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And
darn!!!
Posted by: Brownian
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February 13, 2009 2:48 PM
Bah! All you cephalopods look the same to me. Grumble, grumble, takin' our jobs, grumble, grumble.
Posted by: Menyambal | February 13, 2009 3:33 PM
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And bends like a door hinge
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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February 13, 2009 3:41 PM
construction-worker
squidcuttlefish, or inmate cuttlefish? you decide!Posted by: davem | February 13, 2009 4:53 PM
Roses are red
Cephalopod's orange
It has a big head
And can't climb the Blorenge!
(Blorenge = a mountain in Wales).
Posted by: E.V. | February 13, 2009 5:00 PM
That was what you were going to say next, wasn't it Cuttlefish?Posted by: Sven DiMilo | February 13, 2009 5:04 PM
Of course, the very term "cuttlefish" is itself vertebratocentric.
Why can't you cephalopods all just get along?
Posted by: Taollan | February 13, 2009 8:09 PM
Poor sepiolids. These minorities are either lumped with cuttles or squid, when they are neither. They are their own proud race. LOVE LIVE THE SEPIOLIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally think they are the cutest ceph order.
Posted by: CG | February 13, 2009 8:46 PM
It reminds me of Beaker from the Muppets.
Posted by: isles | February 13, 2009 9:28 PM
That is a cute little cephalopod!
Slate wrote about squid sex today: http://www.slate.com/id/2211343/
Posted by: Krubozumo Nyankoye | February 14, 2009 12:47 AM
I personally am much more partial to ammonites, though they
all be dead critters.
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Would it be indiscrete
Referring to a parakeet?
Keen of eye and sharp of beak
Prone to imitate and speak
Descendent of a reptile shown
That nibbles on a cuttlebone...
Posted by: Creaky | February 27, 2009 1:53 PM
I have a Cephalopod section on my blog, even though it is about graduate medical education, health science literature and searching technologies, because... I just love those pods! Thanks for the terrific photos.