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Friday Cephalopod: Pretty in Pink
Category: Cephalopods • Organisms
Posted on: January 22, 2010 9:55 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: neon-elf.myopenid.com
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January 22, 2010 10:01 AM
Doesn't look a thing like Molly Ringwald.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM
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January 22, 2010 10:04 AM
Shouldn't a critter whose species name is Sepia latimanus be brown?
Posted by: neon-elf.myopenid.com
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January 22, 2010 10:04 AM
It is a very pretty little beastie, though. Like a bundle of lace.
Posted by: cehegarty
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January 22, 2010 10:14 AM
Unless I'm mistaken, this is some type of cuttlefish, which makes me very happy. After nautiluses, cuttlefish are my very favorite cephalopods. Although I do love all types of octopi; many are adorable and delicious served as nigiri.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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January 22, 2010 10:52 AM
Looks like a coral lurker, assuming that's a relatively permanent appearance.
They always seem a tad contemptuous of whatever is not themselves (anthropomorphizing, I know).
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: ex-minister
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January 22, 2010 10:55 AM
Can someone recommend a website(s) that describes/shows the the classification of organisms? I know embarrassing little about them.
kingdom, phylum, class, etc and it would name the species that are apart of it. Enjoy the weekly cephalopods but cannot tell cuttlefish from a nautilus.
TIA
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM
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January 22, 2010 10:57 AM
ex-minister #6
Google is your friend.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 22, 2010 11:02 AM
That's a tall order, ex-minister...there are a lot of species!
You could spend a lot of time here, or here, or you could start here...
(assuming it's animals you're interested in)
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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January 22, 2010 11:10 AM
Nautili? Nautilodes?
Cehegarty, have you met Pharyngula's semi-official poet laureate yet?
I just checked the Tree of Life Web Project, for the order Sepiida, but it was disappointingly brief. The Wikipedia article on Cuttlefish is pretty dense, though. (Not linked because I can't remember how many links it takes to set off the SciBorg spam filter, and I really want to tell PZ about my online pharmacy "Great Deals" on \/1agr a + C1 alis
Posted by: Ring Tailed Lemurian
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January 22, 2010 11:11 AM
Aw, how nice. 'Tis Himself links to a site that says
Back to celaphopods.
I suspect that PZ is not really touring California, but is deep in his secret underwater lab, (cackling manically ofc) genetically engineering celaphopods so that they don't die after mating and producing their only brood.
He's doing that so they wll be able to pass on a culture to the next generations, and so they can then take over the world.
Keep up the evil work, PZ!
Posted by: ex-minister
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January 22, 2010 11:21 AM
Great, I like the 3 websites. I tried googling beforehand and just got lost in wiki.
Yeah, I wasn't thinking about what I was asking for since there are millions of species. But have to start somewhere and thanks for getting me going.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 22, 2010 11:26 AM
Well, OK, here's the distilled summary of the upper levels of animal taxonomy. Apologies for not bothering to reformat much:
http://terrapinprocrastination.blogspot.com/2010/01/animal-taxonomy.html
Posted by: Holytape
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January 22, 2010 12:16 PM
It is looks as if it is either asleep or praying. Which begs the question, "Does God answer cephalod prayers?" Followed by "If God answers cephalopod prayers at the same rate He answers human prayers, does that mean that they are made in God's image too?" Since it is apparent that God answers the two types of prayer at the same rate (about 0 precent of the time), it can be safely assumed that Cthulhu is God.
The Nautileaster Baeopleuroceras
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM, CR
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January 22, 2010 12:40 PM
"Does God answer cephalopod prayers?"
We have no need of your puny human god.
Posted by: recovering catholic
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January 22, 2010 1:08 PM
Love the long, pretty eyelashes!
Posted by: Peter G.
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January 22, 2010 1:10 PM
Got to get me one of these. As an exfoliant this has got to beat a loofah any day. And it can do a massage at the same time. How cool is that?
Posted by: ex-minister
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January 22, 2010 1:15 PM
So is this correct for today's pretty in pink cephalopod?
Kingdom - Animalia
Phylum - Eumetazoz
Class - Bilateria
Order - Lophotrochozoa
Family - Mollusca
Genus - Cephalopods
Species - Sepia latimanus (Reef cuttlefish)
Posted by: Silič O'Nopolitanopoulos, Färschdbischuf Beesknees aus Ulm und Klein Elguth, Elector Pharynguline.
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January 22, 2010 1:29 PM
Looks remarkably like that 'dragonfruit' from Cosmic Variance.
Posted by: Brownian, Most Vicious & Petty of Pharyngulites
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January 22, 2010 3:58 PM
Probably on the inside too, but having eaten both I'd have to say cuttlefish is tastier. Sorry, Cuttlefish, OM.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo
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January 22, 2010 4:01 PM
Well the levels are correct but the assigned ranks are not. (Don't feel bad; assigned ranks are being slowly abandoned as we speak. That's one reason I left most of them off my post, which was adopted from a Bio 101 handout I distribute.)
The phylum is Mollusca.
[Eumetazoa, Bilateria, and Lophotrochozoa are all squished in between Kingdom and Phylum: subkingdom? superphylum? infrakingdom? whatever. This is one of the big reasons for the whole abandonment thing.]
Cephalopoda is a traditional Class.
Genus Sepia, species Sepia latimanus, with the capitalization, italics, and binomial all important conventions.
Order and Family I'd have to look up for any nonvertebrates and a hell of a lot of vertebrates too. 'kipedia is useful at this level:
Order Sepiida
Family Sepiidae
(both are named after the genus)
Posted by: Thebear, just an agent of peas
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January 22, 2010 4:18 PM
Seems like it's eyes are glowing, so it's time to say ïa ïa, just to be sure...
Posted by: David Marjanović
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January 22, 2010 5:47 PM
Its ink should be.
As I just said on another thread, those who cannot spell Iä shall be eaten next to last.