Octosquid.

Posted by Miss Cellania in Animal on July 5, 2007 at 7:57 pm


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What seems to be a new species of squid has been found in Hawaii. The creature was retreived from a deep-sea water filter at the Natural Energy Laboratory.

According to Richard Young, an oceanography professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, the specimen tentatively belongs to the genus Mastigoteuthis, but the species is undetermined.

War, who termed the specimen “octosquid” for the way it looked, said it was about a foot long, with white suction cups, eight tentacles and an octopus head with a squidlike mantle.

Mastigoteuthis {wiki} is the whiplash squid. Link -via Metafilter


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6 comments to "Octosquid."

  1. Carl Huber
    July 5th, 2007 at 8:43 pm

    It's gorgeous.

    I bet it's delicious too.

  2. Alice H
    July 6th, 2007 at 12:58 am

    LOL, Carl - my first thought was "Yum! I wonder who will be the first person to eat octosquid calamari!"

  3. redstripe
    July 6th, 2007 at 9:36 am

    We already have the Taningia danae, which is an eight-armed deep sea squid.

  4. Lu Allen
    July 6th, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    Maybe it's like the Zebra crosses with horse/donkey... in that an Octupus & Squid did the funky chicken together?!?

    Very interesting.

  5. nutt
    July 7th, 2007 at 4:52 am

    I wonder if this is how pres. Bush was came about.....

  6. TheGoodReverend
    July 8th, 2007 at 11:28 am

    It's been identified as a specimen, which happens to have lost two arms, of a rare but known species of squid: http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=11960 .


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