Schmidt Ocean spotted one of these on a dive yesterday (depth 880m):
Identified by @jeffday as Japetella. A question was posed: is the brightness here just a reflection off the ROV, or does this species have bioluminescence?
Information on these guys seems hard to come by; any ideas @GPO87?
A broad paper re: ink sac evolution which includes Japetella:
Identified by @jeffday as Japetella. A question was posed: is the brightness here just a reflection off the ROV, or does this species have bioluminescence?
Information on these guys seems hard to come by; any ideas @GPO87?
A broad paper re: ink sac evolution which includes Japetella:
The ink sac clouds octopod evolutionary history - Hydrobiologia
Difficulties in elucidating the evolutionary history of the octopods have arisen from problems in identifying informative morphological characters. Recent classifications have divided the largest group, the incirrate octopods, into five groups. These include the pelagic superfamily Argonautoidea...
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