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Please, Octopus vulgaris, don’t say more. I cannot address the species complex

You can identify a Giant Australian Cuttlefish just by the papillae over the eyes. They typically have two pairs of 3 over an eye. So 6 total over an eye. Most cuttlefish only have 2 total over an eye, so one per spot. In the Giant Australian Cuttlefish, both of those papillae branch off into 3, so any more than one papilla, in a spot where there is usually just one papilla, is enough to suggest a Giant Australian Cuttlefish. Got it memorized?

@cephalopodidentifier do your thang? 🥺?

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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

This is current- it was posted on 8/25/2025

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