[News]: ‘Underwater eyes’ spot new critters in Atlantic - MSNBC

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‘Underwater eyes’ spot new critters in Atlantic
[SIZE=-1]MSNBC - 15 hours ago[/SIZE]
[SIZE=-1]... species and oodles of other life forms, ranging from polka-dotted glass squid resembling beach balls to grim viperfish with teeth like ice-picks. ...[/SIZE]



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[monty]

a nice cranchiid and histioteuthid in the pictures:

the comb part visible in the cranchiid must be a gill, right? What's the big white organ next to it?

 

[Animal Mother]

Hmm, I could be wrong, but the ostracod and amphipod in that article look exactly like some of the deep-sea creatures The Blue Planet: Deep Sea, very interesting show.

 

[DWhatley]

AM,
I was thinking the same thing. We JUST rewatched several episodes of that huge photo expedition (culiminating in several titles within the Discovery channel) since we acquired a newer big screen TV (with the color guns properly aligned) tonight and saw these little creatures.

 

[Emily182]

Very cool. Histioteuthis has some small tentacles.

 

[Melissa]

Blue Planet must be going around, I've been watching it, too, and thought that the clear polka dotted squid looked familiar.

So what is the white organ inside?

 

[OB]

It appears to be in the position of the digestive gland, but also too uniform in appearance to resemble a newly ingested prey....

 

[OB]

I think I have it! THAT's where I knew the polkadot squid from! Squeekytoythis bathtubbensis

 

[Clem]

Monty, I think you're right about the "feather," it must be the gill structure.

Ob, does it get along well with the duck?

Clem

 

[OB]

The duck took care of the sperm whale, they're best buddies ever since

 

[Tintenfisch]

Most of the cranchiid pics I've seen that look like that are ID'd as Teuthowenia. I think we have one floating around here somewhere (ha) that Steve calls. T. pellucida.