Nentuaby–where did I claim that I was complaining about anything in this thread?
I googled the latin, found several pages on the bottletail. The “Sepiadarium” led me to believe it was a cuttlefish, but most pages called it a squid. Reading through several led me to understand that its common name is indeed the “bottletail squid” (some sites included “bottletail cuttlefish” but that was decidedly in the minority).
I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid!
Notorious P.A.T.says
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And
darn!!!
Browniansays
I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid!
Bah! All you cephalopods look the same to me. Grumble, grumble, takin’ our jobs, grumble, grumble.
Menyambalsays
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And bends like a door hinge
Jadehawksays
construction-worker squidcuttlefish, or inmate cuttlefish? you decide!
davemsays
Posted by: Notorious P.A.T. | February 13, 2009 2:39 PM
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And
darn!!!
Roses are red
Cephalopod’s orange
It has a big head
And can’t climb the Blorenge!
(Blorenge = a mountain in Wales).
E.V.says
I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid! I’M MAD AS HELL… AND I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
That was what you were going to say next, wasn’t it Cuttlefish?
Sven DiMilosays
Of course, the very term “cuttlefish” is itself vertebratocentric.
Why can’t you cephalopods all just get along?
Taollansays
Poor sepiolids. These minorities are either lumped with cuttles or squid, when they are neither. They are their own proud race. LOVE LIVE THE SEPIOLIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally think they are the cutest ceph order.
I have a Cephalopod section on my blog, even though it is about graduate medical education, health science literature and searching technologies, because… I just love those pods! Thanks for the terrific photos.
Is that a fully grown animal? It’s so cute I want to pinch its cheeks and feed it candy.
Er, I’m fully grown. Can I get in on that offer?
Huge eyes for such a little fellow. What’s his vision like?
cephlapods rule! And Mark’s enthusiasm for them is truely infectious!
I’m sorry, but there’s no way in hell that’s a living animal.
It looks like something from the jelly-counterpart to CakeWrecks.
Is that David Berlinski?
Aaaaaawww,
that is so CUTE. I think it looks like a tiny, orangey elephant baby.
So… wait. This is a species of cuttlefish with the common name “bottletail squid”?
No respect.
Wotta sweet little mitelington!
He/she’s a cutie… I like the way her/his little tentacles are curled up.
Cuttlefish, OM:
Actually, your post is the first use of the word “squid” I can find in this thread?
sucker’s orange all right
That’s really very orange. I wonder how it has escaped being used in certain adverts …
Nentuaby–where did I claim that I was complaining about anything in this thread?
I googled the latin, found several pages on the bottletail. The “Sepiadarium” led me to believe it was a cuttlefish, but most pages called it a squid. Reading through several led me to understand that its common name is indeed the “bottletail squid” (some sites included “bottletail cuttlefish” but that was decidedly in the minority).
I am ranting, not against this thread, but against the world in general, a world in which a perfectly innocent species of cuttlefish, fine upstanding moral creatures that they are, can be tarred with the same brush, guilted by association, named cephalopods of a chromatophore (“birds of a feather” is vertebracentric) with squid!
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And
darn!!!
Bah! All you cephalopods look the same to me. Grumble, grumble, takin’ our jobs, grumble, grumble.
Roses are red
Cephalopod is orange
It has a big head
And bends like a door hinge
construction-worker
squidcuttlefish, or inmate cuttlefish? you decide!Roses are red
Cephalopod’s orange
It has a big head
And can’t climb the Blorenge!
(Blorenge = a mountain in Wales).
That was what you were going to say next, wasn’t it Cuttlefish?
Of course, the very term “cuttlefish” is itself vertebratocentric.
Why can’t you cephalopods all just get along?
Poor sepiolids. These minorities are either lumped with cuttles or squid, when they are neither. They are their own proud race. LOVE LIVE THE SEPIOLIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I personally think they are the cutest ceph order.
It reminds me of Beaker from the Muppets.
That is a cute little cephalopod!
Slate wrote about squid sex today: http://www.slate.com/id/2211343/
I personally am much more partial to ammonites, though they
all be dead critters.
—
Would it be indiscrete
Referring to a parakeet?
Keen of eye and sharp of beak
Prone to imitate and speak
Descendent of a reptile shown
That nibbles on a cuttlebone…
I have a Cephalopod section on my blog, even though it is about graduate medical education, health science literature and searching technologies, because… I just love those pods! Thanks for the terrific photos.