Squid ID

[Animal Mother]

A person on Reef Central posted this link, and were wondering if its species could be identified. Very intersting video of a squid at supposedly almost 8,000 feet. Pretty creepy!

http://coralmorphologic.com/b/

Link to the thread on RC: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1460517

 

[OB]

Interesting find, discussed earlier on this very forum

Although no specimen of this species has been collected and described yet, it has been tentatively put in the Magnapinnidae family, so formally a Magnapinna sp.

 

[Animal Mother]

Oops!

 

[Keith]

I dunno, i've had some experience in video editing. I have to say, the video looks like it could be doctored.

 

[Tintenfisch]

It is always healthy to be skeptical, but this video and several others were initially published by a very reputable source over here at Cephalopods in Action.

 

[Keith]

ah. well that changes things.

 

[Tintenfisch]

 

[Keith]

Thats the kind of thing that discourages me from swimming in the ocean. crazy.

 

[Tintenfisch]

At least at 8000 feet.

 

[DWhatley]

There is a good chance the video was spliced to keep the action in a shortened format but that does not mean it was artificially created or modified. It is hard to decide at what point "photoshopping" for clarity or lighting becomes falsifying.