ALCES (AUT Squid Squad)さんのイラストまとめ

On the 10th day of #Squidmas2022, my Joubin gave to me: "Melanoteuthis lucens" (=Vampyroteuthis infernalis), collected around 3500m deep in 1905. Joubin (1920) Plate XV, with some remarks below on colouration and the unique posterior photophores.

On the 4th day of #Squidmas2022, my Joubin gave to me... the 'comb-fin squid' Chtenopteryx, reconstructed from three partial specimens. Lovely rendering of the unique muscular ribs in the fins. One day I will name a Ch. species for the muppet Uncle Deadly. Joubin (1900) Plate XIV

#Squidtember Day 22: DYK vampire 'squid'* start life with two baby fins that are replaced by a different set of adult fins? And they go through an 'awkward teenager' stage with both sets? Seibel & Thuesen (1998) showed that the two pairs work differently:
https://t.co/ww1plCmldK

#Squidtember Days 20&21: While egg masses are still unknown for most deep-sea squids, a few have been observed brooding sheets of eggs that they hold in their arms. Seibel et al. (2005) of @MBARI_News observed it in the 'black-eyed' squid Gonatus onyx... https://t.co/DfRfru4mUK

#Squidtember Day 2: Squid aren't as famous for camouflage as octopuses, but they still have some pretty neat tricks. Burford et al. (2015) created an ethogram for Chiroteuthis calyx, and showed it mimicking the midwater siphonophore Nanomia @MBARI_News
https://t.co/lkCXjV0P73

On the 14th day of Squidmas, my Chun book gave to me... Sparkly little Pterygioteuthis (1-3, 6&7 P. giardi; the rest P. gemmata). These wee 'fire' squids (family Pyroteuthidae) pack a lot of twinkle into a small body (ML rarely >5cm)! Chun (1910) Plate XIV. #squidmas2021

On the 9th day of Squidmas, my Chun book gave to me... Bathyteuthis abyssicola, a wee deep-sea decabrachian (not true squid) that broods its eggs like a sheet of tiny lightbulbs; see @MBARI_News video by @podlett: https://t.co/6eSmokybV2. Chun (1910) Plate XXIV. #squidmas2021

Do you like deep-sea squid? Arm hooks? Glowing light organs the size of a small lemon? Jesse's global review of the family Octopoteuthidae (including Taningia!) is a free download here https://t.co/wFm94Dym8P in its nearly 350-page glory. Go forth and ID octopoteuthids, people!