it's got hair on its tentacles!

[monty]

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/12/promachoteuthis_sloani.php

 

[Tintenfisch]

Fantastic!

 

[tonmo]

 

[joefish84]

I ALMOST CUT MY HAIR! it happened just the other day... it was gettin kinda long...

 

[main_board]

Cool! From the pictures the specimen looks to be in quite good condition given its ungraceful upheaval via trawl.

Cheers!

 

[Jean]

I WANT one!!!!!

J

 

[Toren]

What am I looking at here - are these TEETH instead of a beak?

http://www.tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/PromachSpCOral.jpg

 

[cuttlegirl]

I can't see the link...

 

[monty]

I can't see the link...

I can't either, but a google search found this:

edit: a ToLweb link that works

edit: better TOLweb link with species description

 

[Scuba Kid]

This is the picture shown in the link. Pretty weird looking!

 

[Steve O'Shea]

What am I looking at here - are these TEETH instead of a beak?

No. Just something weird happening with the buccal bulb musculature (surrounding the beaks). The exposure is a bit low so I can't honestly tell whether the beaks are still in there (there's very little damage to the buccal membrane, so I guess that they are).

It would be so cool to have a squid with teeth! These (muscles) look more like dentures.

 

[monty]

No. Just something weird happening with the buccal bulb musculature (surrounding the beaks). The exposure is a bit low so I can't honestly tell whether the beaks are still in there (there's very little damage to the buccal membrane, so I guess that they are).

It would be so cool to have a squid with teeth! These (muscles) look more like dentures.

I thought I read that the beak was not described in detail on TOLweb because they didn't want to dissect the type specimen that much, so I inferred that the beak is in there somewhere in the pic... but maybe that was the sister species...

 

[GPO87]

Hm, I always thought that picture was photoshopped. I can see why it can be mistaken of having teeth.