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Friday Cephalopod: Fabulous fashion sense

Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: August 7, 2009 5:56 AM, by PZ Myers

Octopus mototi

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

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Posted by: MPG | August 7, 2009 6:02 AM

Looks like a big mint humbug. With tentacles.

Posted by: Ragutis | August 7, 2009 6:11 AM

Are Emperor Snapper like carrots? Like, if you eat too many you start looking like one?

Lovely beastie.

Posted by: eddie | August 7, 2009 6:12 AM

Humbug, indeed. I wonder what it tastes like.
And are those holes in the tentacle membrane, or just really dark spots?

Posted by: 'Tis Himself | August 7, 2009 6:18 AM

Vertical stripes do make you look thinner.

Posted by: Samantha Vimes | August 7, 2009 7:01 AM

Zebra stripes arae in this year. :)

Posted by: Mobius | August 7, 2009 7:25 AM

I'd almost be willing to believe some used clown makeup on that guy.

Posted by: Happy Tentacles | August 7, 2009 7:43 AM

Oh, what a show-off!

Posted by: llewelly | August 7, 2009 8:14 AM

Doesn't Zeno have a suit in that color scheme?

Posted by: Janet Holmes | August 7, 2009 8:49 AM

Is the same "blue ringed octopus" which killed a few people in Australia a while back, (like about 30 years if I remember right)? They picked up pretty little octopuses off the rocks and died a horrible death shortly thereafter.

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Posted by: daveau | August 7, 2009 8:59 AM

Looks like ice cream with caramel sauce... until you get down to the tentacles.

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Posted by: Lily | August 7, 2009 9:40 AM

Janet @ #9, It's not a blue ringed octopus, though this one is poisonous as well. Here's some blue ring octopus information, if you are interested http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/bluering3.php http://www.tonmo.com/gallery/showimage.php?i=739&original=1

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Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites | August 7, 2009 11:41 AM