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Daily Cephalopod #224
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Closest ID: oh that's my friend the California Lilliput Octopus (Octopus micropyrsus)
Reasoning: ID is in the notes! But also. Protruding eyestalks, dark brownish body with a blue sheen, 3 papillae on the dorsal, otherwise smooth skin. Also yes I return.
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Closest ID: Brazilian Reef Octopus (Octopus insularis)
Reasoning: Typical alarm pattern with stripe through eye, "veined" pattern
Identifications in order from left to right, top to down Coconut octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus), image source Lesser blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa), possible image source? Casper octopus (Unplaced, undescribed species), image source AI generated blue-ring octopus. I will not link the source, because it leads to a sketchy redirect, but here is evidence.
Ruby octopus ("Octopus" rubescens), not sure about source Day octopus ("Octopus" cyanea), from a video by hawaiiaquaman on Instagram Blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena sp.), photograph by David Liittschwager Common octopus (Octopus vulgaris), not sure about source
can i get an octopus gorgonus :3 i just saw them in a big book of octopuses, seahorses, and jellyfish that i got at a thrift store and i am enamorsd
Bae I googled octopus gorgonus and this is what Ive got
Ive never heard the term in my life, theres no relevant search results, and even the google ai couldn't help me I'm sorry 😭
Closest ID (for this photo!): Māori Octopus (Macroctopus maorum)
Here is the source for this photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21461626 Google image results tend to pull random "default" images of an organism from iNaturalist if there are no available photos of it on iNaturalist, hence why this unrelated species appears. "Octopus" gorgonus is a member of the Abdopus horridus group, along with Abdopus abaculus, the mosaic octopus, the most well known of this group, identifiable by the round patches of color down their arms and the rest of their body. It was described from Tonga, and this seems to be the most likely photo of "Octopus" gorgonus on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26211189
Genuine question, how did you find this information? I used several different search engines and couldn't find a single bit of information on the term octopus gorgonus. I honestly was thinking it was some sort of made up term because of the lack of results.
I'm not sure why info wouldn't come up, but usually when I try to look up information about a species, I put the name in quotes like "this" so it returns exactly that name, and that usually helps. It's also good to check sites like iNaturalist and WoRMS since they usually contain up to date cephalopod taxonomy and other relevant data about species. Linked here is the research paper where "Octopus" gorgonus was originally described, by the way
can i get an octopus gorgonus :3 i just saw them in a big book of octopuses, seahorses, and jellyfish that i got at a thrift store and i am enamorsd
Bae I googled octopus gorgonus and this is what Ive got
Ive never heard the term in my life, theres no relevant search results, and even the google ai couldn't help me I'm sorry 😭
Closest ID (for this photo!): Māori Octopus (Macroctopus maorum)
Here is the source for this photo: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/21461626 Google image results tend to pull random "default" images of an organism from iNaturalist if there are no available photos of it on iNaturalist, hence why this unrelated species appears. "Octopus" gorgonus is a member of the Abdopus horridus group, along with Abdopus abaculus, the mosaic octopus, the most well known of this group, identifiable by the round patches of color down their arms and the rest of their body. It was described from Tonga, and this seems to be the most likely photo of "Octopus" gorgonus on iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/26211189
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Closest ID: Day Octopus ("Octopus" cyanea)
Reasoning: False eyespot occasionally displayed below the real eye, radial star pattern around eye, white spotted arms This is fighting behavior! Note the high contrast pattering and attempts to constrict the opponent's mantle using their arms.
shoutout to this blog. actually the best thing ever. true love for cephalopods is evident. particularly because i have no idea how anybody IDs cuttlefish aside from the most obvious ones
Thank you! My cephalopod love is deep. I figured out how to identify cuttlefish via drawing funny shapes on images of them (after a fit of frustration over their identification) and eventually it all made sense Then I sold my soul to the reaper cuttlefish
Can I have a pal as a pick-me-up?
Of course you can, friend!!!!
@cephalopodidentifier do your thang? 🥺?
Closest ID: Common European Cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) Reasoning: Striped pattern with big ol eyes and uh. You're just gonna have to trust me on this one. It's the vibes. Vibes
Hey. So, the bush-club squid was recorded alive for possibly the first time. I WILL CRY.
These are very rarely reported squid, even less common than colossal squid. This individual is a little battered and is missing their namesake; that would be their wild tentacle clubs, which have about 500 suckers. However, their proportions are unmistakable - a tiny head, with a large siphon, a long mantle, and rounded fins with a long pointed tail at the end. The initial reaction to this squid was pure confusion. I floated an ID with some teuthologists and eventually we came to agreement that this is Batoteuthis! This sighting also marks a range extension, as this squid previously was considered to only have a sub-Antarctic distribution, but this was much further north, near Uruguay. It goes without saying that words cannot DESCRIBE how happy I am to see this squid!! They're not popular like the colossal squid but they matter to me, ok. They're colossal to me.
can i get a spoopy cephalopod for spoopy month? or one with comically big ears if you can’t find a spoopy one or if it’s just easier
I'm so sorry I didn't see this in time!!!!
Closest ID: Cirroteuthoidea, possibly Stauroteuthis syrtensis (Glowing Sucker Octopus) Reasoning: Note how the mantle is almost fully fused to the head, whilre vampire squids have a clearly seen mantle aperture. The eyes are smaller and the tendrils are absent. This photo specifically is identified as possibly being the glowing sucker octopus, from a seemingly missing video, as used on this species' Wikipedia page.
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Sorry Sepia grahami brings out the worst in me. If you knew its history you'd feel the same Imagine being undescribed for almost centuries, being considered identical to another species (even though they are decently separated evolutionarily and don't really look similar when alive), and that species ends up being nicknamed by divers as the red cuttlefish. But you're the red cuttlefish! So eventually, after ages of waiting, you get described. Finally! Then the other species gets redescribed a year after. But they use a photo of you as an example of what this animal looks like alive. By the same person who described you. How does this happen?? You were just described not that long ago, how could this mistake happen? And then on a popular animal identifying website, this scientist says that your orange spots are diagnostic for your species. That's great. Barring the fact that around 10 other species have virtually the same exact spots. So now everything is getting identified as Sepia grahami, completely ignoring other diagnostic features and disparate appearances. It's got the orange spot, so it's gotta be Sepia grahami. What do you mean that the triple-lobed papillae over the eye of Ascarosepion apama is diagnostic for that species? It's got the orange spot. Orange spot has precedence. Well that cuttlefish looks weird but that's because it's a baby. It's because cuttlefish change color. Did you know cephalopods change color? Did you know they change texture? They can be literally anything they want because they're magical. You have to know that everything's Sepia grahami. And nobody's moved Sepia grahami to Ascarosepion yet
Our pen and paper session recently ended with the introduction of a were-cuttlefish, can we get a cuttlefish to celebrate?
Cuttlefish be upon ye!!!! Todays cephalopod pink!!!!!
Closest ID: "Sepia" grahami (Ken's Cuttlefish) Reasoning: So pink it hurts your soul, frighteningly smooth and stubby
These critters were easier to spot than many of the small fish. Juvenile harlequin sweetlips, moray eel, redtooth triggerfish, octopus.
Closest ID: Abdopus sp.
Reasoning: White spots on arms and dorsal mantle, radial “star” pattern around the eye, long arms
A deep sea squid. Filmed in the Pacific Ocean. From Into the Abyss: Worlds of the Deep - The Twilight Zone (2023).
Closest ID: Asperoteuthis sp.
Reasoning: Way too long!!! and second pair of fins
A deep sea squid. Filmed in the Pacific Ocean. From Into the Abyss: Worlds of the Deep - The Twilight Zone (2023).
Closest ID: Ommastrephes sp. (Flying squid)
Reasoning: Iridescent markings on both dorsal and ventral, robust mantle, distinctly pigmented fins
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thank you so very kindly for your work and services. cephalopods are my favorite animals (especially cuttlefish) and i am so so overjoyed to learn more about their identification. i also am just very very happy to see more images of them so a big thanks for many smiles
You're welcome!! I'm glad to share a little joy (our beloved many-limbed mollusks) into the world :)
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish from the Splash Zone at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Two of the cuttlefish were getting pretty cozy.
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Closest ID: Acanthosepion pharaonis (Pharaoh Cuttlefish)
Reasoning: Stellate papillae, blue-lined fin rim with periodic dark spots
