planktonic octopus paralarva
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Friday Cephalopod: Big-eyed spindly critter
planktonic octopus paralarva
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I’ve seen these before, Roger Steele took some magnificent photos of them, but, what is the species or genus name?
It definitely looks like one of H. G. Wells’ Martians.
Ooo, shiny.
PZ:
Are you familiar with the game called Cephalopod by game and puzzle designer Mark Steere?
Games magazine featured it in a recent issue and the name immediately made me think of you.
On his site, the board is plain greyscale. But in Games, they printed it in colour, and the board was surrounded by a pair of stylized cephalopods of some kind (I’m not savvy enough to know if they were a particular identifiable species).
That’s a beautiful photo…the luminous blue tentacles. Saved it, thanks!
I must say, I never saw the beauty of cephalopods before discovering Pharyngula.
“It was a one-eyed, one horned, flying purple people eater,
one-eyed, one horned flying purple people eater..”