By pharyngula on October 20, 2006. Argonauta nodosa Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman. Tags cephalopods Organisms Log in to post comments More like this Funky. Log in to post comments Wow, that's so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it! Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer... Log in to post comments I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this... thing. Was it submitted to some kind of... compression ? Log in to post comments Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye. Log in to post comments "I do not understand the rest of this... thing." Seems you're not alone... e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html Log in to post comments That would make a great head for a movie alien. Log in to post comments I misread the caption as "argonauta medusa" the first time. Log in to post comments Wowzers! A mother argonaut! Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi? Log in to post comments
Wow, that's so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it! Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer... Log in to post comments
I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this... thing. Was it submitted to some kind of... compression ? Log in to post comments
Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye. Log in to post comments
"I do not understand the rest of this... thing." Seems you're not alone... e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html Log in to post comments
Wowzers! A mother argonaut! Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi? Log in to post comments
Funky.
Wow, that's so awe inspiring I could almost pray to it!
Though I think I noticed a few defective cromatophores maybe you should send it back to the manufacturer, er designer...
I suppose I can see an eye, but I do not understand the rest of this... thing. Was it submitted to some kind of... compression ?
Nat, the arms are folded back over the shell-like egg case. You can glimpse part of the white wall of the case behind the eye.
"I do not understand the rest of this... thing."
Seems you're not alone... e.g., it really is an octopus, but the egg case looks a lot like a nautilus shell. More about it at The Cephalopod Page:
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tcp/Argo.html
That would make a great head for a movie alien.
I misread the caption as "argonauta medusa" the first time.
Wowzers!
A mother argonaut!
Do the females die after the eggs hatch, like other octopi?