need an ID!

[sedna]

All right, I've had him/her for a couple of days now and got a couple of shots good enough to post for an id. It seems bigger than Al (an aculeatus) but very similar in patterning and coloration. It was very shy at first but is warming up. I will start a journal after I get an ID and a name...

 

[DWhatley]

do any of the Abdopus group get that big?

Mucktopus has said that there a quit a few in the Abdopus group and that they are difficult to identify but Norman is too old to use the Abdopus naming (He uses the term horridus species complex that seems to be the group now called Abdopus).

The mantle size on Sedna's rules out a lot of the ones where I find the eye star (Including the Northern Star-eye, kagoshimensis pg 229) so I am very glad she does not see an eye-spot but this description mentions that it is not always visible and I keep seeing a shadow where the eye spot should be ...