Friday Cephalopod: Dapper in blue

By pharyngula on May 22, 2009.

Hapalochlaena maculosa

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

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Friday Cephalopod: Don't play with anything of this color!

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Friday Cephalopod: pretty and poisonous

Grrlscientist asked me for a blue cephalopod the other day, and what do we all think of when blue cephalopods come up? Blue ringed octopuses, of course. So lovely, and so deadly. Hapalochlaena Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.

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