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  1. Brownian says

    Is that a fully grown animal? It’s so cute I want to pinch its cheeks and feed it candy.

    Er, I’m fully grown. Can I get in on that offer?

  2. Sili says

    I’m sorry, but there’s no way in hell that’s a living animal.

    It looks like something from the jelly-counterpart to CakeWrecks.

  3. Nentuaby says

    Cuttlefish, OM:

    Actually, your post is the first use of the word “squid” I can find in this thread?

  4. says

    Nentuaby–where did I claim that I was complaining about anything in this thread?

    I googled the latin, found several pages on the bottletail. The “Sepiadarium” led me to believe it was a cuttlefish, but most pages called it a squid. Reading through several led me to understand that its common name is indeed the “bottletail squid” (some sites included “bottletail cuttlefish” but that was decidedly in the minority).

    I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid!

  5. Brownian says

    I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid!

    Bah! All you cephalopods look the same to me. Grumble, grumble, takin’ our jobs, grumble, grumble.

  6. davem says

    Posted by: Notorious P.A.T. | February 13, 2009 2:39 PM

    Roses are red
    Cephalopod is orange
    It has a big head
    And

    darn!!!

    Roses are red
    Cephalopod’s orange
    It has a big head
    And can’t climb the Blorenge!

    (Blorenge = a mountain in Wales).

  7. E.V. says

    I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid! I’M MAD AS HELL… AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!

    That was what you were going to say next, wasn’t it Cuttlefish?

  8. Sven DiMilo says

    Of course, the very term “cuttlefish” is itself vertebratocentric.
    Why can’t you cephalopods all just get along?

  9. Taollan says

    Poor sepiolids. These minorities are either lumped with cuttles or squid, when they are neither. They are their own proud race. LOVE LIVE THE SEPIOLIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    I personally think they are the cutest ceph order.

  10. Krubozumo Nyankoye says

    I personally am much more partial to ammonites, though they
    all be dead critters.

    Would it be indiscrete
    Referring to a parakeet?

    Keen of eye and sharp of beak
    Prone to imitate and speak

    Descendent of a reptile shown
    That nibbles on a cuttlebone…

  11. says

    I have a Cephalopod section on my blog, even though it is about graduate medical education, health science literature and searching technologies, because… I just love those pods! Thanks for the terrific photos.