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All Biocode files are based on field identifications to the best of the researcher’s ability at the time.
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Description: A cirrate octopus observed in the water column at Haklang in the Norwegian Sea Item Type: Video Title: Cirrate octopus Copyright: SERPENT Project Species: Cirroteuthis sp. Behaviour: Swimming Site: Atlantic -- Norwegian -- Haklang Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1245 Countries: Norway -- Norwegian Sector Habitat: Pelagic Rig: Transocean Leader Project Partners: Statoil, Oceaneering, Transocean ROV: Magnum 018 (work class) Deposited By: Dr Andrew Gates Deposited On: 11 November 2008
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Description: This one is a Muusoctopus (the new name for Benthoctopus). It is not Muusoctopus januarii and certainly not Pteroctopus tetracirrhus. It might be a Muusoctopus johnsonianus but they are usually paler that this with more distinct reverse countershading. I suspect that there are undescribed species in the Gulf of Mexico and this may be one.
Octopus with 2 rows of suckers on each arm and 8 arms. This narrows it down a bit. It is a female as no reproductive arm (hectocotylus) is visible on the third right arm. An old reference on the recorded deep-water octopus from the GoM (Voss, 1956) seems out of date compared to modern knowledge. Item Type: Image Title: Octopus (Muusoctopus johnsonianus? or new species) from Gulf of Mexico Species: Muusoctopus johnsonianus Site: Atlantic -- Gulf of Mexico -- Gulf of Mexico Site Description: Seafloor Depth (m): 1816 Latitude: 27 deg 20' 00" N Longitude: 88 deg 12' 00" W Countries: USA -- USA: Gulf of Mexico Rig: MV Geoholm ROV: Triton XLS 11 Deposited By: Dr Daniel Jones Deposited On: 06 August 2013
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Coral Sea, Shot at night, Duration 19 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 23 seconds
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Eastern Pacific Ocean, Duration 10 seconds
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Indo-Pacific, Duration 7 seconds
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Coral Sea, Duration 27 seconds
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South Pacific Ocean, Duration 13 seconds
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Cerbere Pyrénées-Orientales France
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Nordsøen, Danmark
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Jim DiLoreto/Smithsonian Institution
EOL staff
Recovered off the coast of Spain, this male giant squid is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.
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Polypus ornatus, dorsal view of a medium sized male from Honolulu.
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Cephalopods. Archieuthis harveyi
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Cephalopods. Ommastrephes illeebrosus Verrill; Loligo Pealei var. Pallida
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Taonius hyperboreus Stp., N. Atlantic.
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Argonauta papyracea, as it swims by means of its locomotive tube.
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Three stages in the development of the eye of Loligo.
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Octopus lentus Baird, N. Atlantic, showing the peculiar formation of the hectocotylus arm, h.a..
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