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  2. Euprymna scolopes - Wikipedia

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    Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island.

  3. Bobtail squid - Wikipedia

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    Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) [1] are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish. Bobtail squid tend to have a rounder mantle than cuttlefish and have no cuttlebone . They have eight suckered arms and two tentacles and are generally quite small (typical male mantle length being between 1 and 8 cm (0.39 and 3.15 in)).

  4. Aliivibrio fischeri - Wikipedia

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    The Hawaiian bobtail squid, its photophores populated with Aliivibrio fischeri A. fischeri are globally distributed in temperate and subtropical marine environments . [ 14 ] They can be found free-floating in oceans, as well as associated with marine animals, sediment, and decaying matter. [ 14 ]

  5. Margaret McFall-Ngai - Wikipedia

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    Margaret McFall-Ngai (born 1951) is an American animal physiologist and biochemist [1] best-known for her work related to the symbiotic relationship between Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes and bioluminescent bacteria, Vibrio fischeri. Her research helped expand the microbiology field, primarily focused on pathogenicity and ...

  6. NASA sends squid from Hawaii into space for research - AOL

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    Dozens of baby squid from Hawaii are in space for study. The baby Hawaiian bobtail squid were raised at the University of Hawaii's Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were blasted into space earlier this ...

  7. Bioluminescent bacteria - Wikipedia

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    The symbiotic relationship between the Hawaiian bobtail squid Euprymna scolopes and the marine gram-negative bacterium Aliivibrio fischeri has been well studied. The two organisms exhibit a mutualistic relationship in which bioluminescence produced by A. fischeri helps to attract prey to the squid host, which provides nutrient-rich tissues and ...

  8. Euprymna - Wikipedia

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    Euprymna tasmanica (Pfeffer, 1884), southern dumpling squid The species listed above with an asterisk (*) are nomen dubium and need further study to determine if they are valid species or synonyms, while a double asterisk (**) marks a taxon inquirendum .

  9. Cephalopod - Wikipedia

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    Right: Hawaiian bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, burying itself in the sand, leaving only the eyes exposed Cephalopods are widely regarded as the most intelligent of the invertebrates and have well-developed senses and large brains (larger than those of gastropods ). [ 13 ]