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Arms and buccal mass of the squid Taningia danae.As in other Octopoteuthidae, the tentacles are absent in adults. Oral view of the bobtail squid Semirossia tenera Head and limbs of the bobtail squid Rossia glaucopis Oral view of male Bathypolypus arcticus with hectocotylus on arm III (left) Cephalopod suckers and configuration of suckers on tentacular club Serrated suckers of a giant squid ...
The squid purportedly latched onto the ship and blocked the rudder with two tentacles. Olivier de Kersauson (captain of the yacht) then stopped the boat, causing the squid to lose interest. "We didn't have anything to scare off this beast, so I don't know what we would have done if it hadn't let go", Kersauson said.
Georges Cuvier's original illustration of an octopus hectocotylus, which he named Hectocotyle octopodis. A hectocotylus (pl.: hectocotyli) is one of the arms of male cephalopods that is specialized to store and transfer spermatophores to the female. [1]
“Whip-lash squid are named for their two long, sticky tentacles. They feed by extending their tentacles while drifting along with currents,” the institute said.
The beak of a giant squid. All extant cephalopods have a two-part beak, or rostrum, situated in the buccal mass and surrounded by the muscular head appendages. The dorsal (upper) mandible fits into the ventral (lower) mandible and together they function in a scissor-like fashion. [1] [2] The beak may also be referred to as the mandibles or jaws ...
Chiroteuthis imperator. The Chiroteuthidae are most notable for their unique paralarval stage, known as the doratopsis [2] stage. Although morphology varies greatly within the family, the Chiroteuthidae are distinguished by their extremely elongated bodies and (in most species) tentacles; the latter may be up to four times the mantle length in Asperoteuthis acanthoderma.
Decapodiformes is a superorder of Cephalopoda comprising all cephalopod species with ten limbs, specifically eight short arms and two long tentacles.It is hypothesized that the ancestral coleoid had five identical pairs of limbs, and that one branch of descendants evolved a modified arm pair IV to become the Decapodiformes, while another branch of descendants evolved and then eventually lost ...
Featuring Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano, Netflix's new dark comedy "No Good Deed" is "about the highs and lows of searching for a safe, happy home."