Thaumelodone gunteri
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Friday Cephalopod: Somehow, he just looks pissed off
Thaumelodone gunteri
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
well no wonder he’s pissed, somebody cut all his legs off!
Good one, Craig!
I went to CephBase at http://www.cephbase.dal.ca/spdb/speciesc.cfm?CephID=658 to get more info about this species. It is smaller than it looks in the photo. CephBase says the body of Thaumelodone gunteri is to at least 4cm and the arms are to at least 8cm. It is found in South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands (UK).
It’s the coiled up tentacles that do it – he looks like he’s making fists and banging them on the floor in a tantrum.
All he needs is a little spoon in each “fist” and he’ll be a dead ringer for a toddler who doesn’t want his greens!
Nah, he’s just trying to look all cool and disinterested. Gets the girl occies everytime.
I think it’s the big forehead sort of look, like he’s curled his eyebrows down…
Am I the only person who immediately thought of this?
Is this what you call a cephalopod chromosome display?
Man I read his scientific name as “thumbeline” which would make sense.
Yikes!
That is one creepy-ass looking mofo!
Of course, I was initially interpreting the big black dots in the *middle* of the eyes to be pupils, so it looks like there’s these evil beady little angry eyes looking RIGHT AT ME…. and it’s kinda scawwy. :-(
Made me think of “Mars Attacks!”
He’s georgeous (sp?) now if I was in the market for a Cephalopod tattoo then he would be my model.
Cute little fella. (Maybe that’s why he’s pissed. He’s sick of everyone calling him that.)
Aw, but he’s so cute when he’s angry!
djlactin,
Thank god. I thought it was just me.
That’s not a Thaumelodone gunteri, that’s one of our new Alien Overlords from Enceladus!
There can be only two.
Master and Apprentice.
Maybe he got expelled from Expelled, too.
“KHAAANNNNNN!!!”
He looks a little like Homer Simpson.
Perhaps, with that name, he’s afraid of being plastinated.
Very cool. His pattern reminds me of chromosomes.
Aww how cute. Then it swallows your hand. lol.
Hey PZ, TCM is doing the Friday Cephalopod thing tonight as well! Right now I’m watching It Came From Beneath the Sea, with the Harryhausen octopus. Tasty!
Try turning your laptop upside down to reveal the alter ego. Oops, I think I just broke my laptop.
Guess it’s just me who’s reminded of Kurt Westergaard’s Mohammed cartoon, yes, that one.