Up for a game of 'guess the mystery ceph'?

[Tintenfisch]

Hi from Scripps! This is my first week working in the collections to identify and catalogue the rather extensive cephalopod specimens in their Pelagic Invertebrate Collections. When I started there were 2600... but by splitting up groups where multiple different taxa have been stored together in a single jar, they've increased by 200 already I'll be here the rest of this week, and back in November with more of the ALCES crew.

Thought a few people might have fun trying their hand (arm) at identifications, so I'll post a few photos of interesting things I'm encountering in the collections. We'll start with an 'easy' one...

 

[tonmo]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1042734713469902848

Love it! ...I think this one might be easy... ...I said

 

[Tintenfisch]

What, no takers? (Other than the one on Twitter...) Too easy? Here's another...

 

[DWhatley]

squid (ie, not octopuses, cuttlefish or nautilus)

 

[Tintenfisch]

Yes. The giant funnels and 'stripes' of chromatophores are a giveaway on this one... does it help if I say that they fall under @GPO87's jurisdiction?

 

[tonmo]

For the first one, my reply with above was designed as a hint at histioteuthis. Not sure of specific species tho - honestly not sure how many known variations of those guys are out there!

Hmmm, second one must be one of those glass squid? Although maybe @GPO87 has a broader juristriction than I thought?

I started out thinking this would be easy and now I’m all

 

[GPO87]

OOO! I know! I know!!!

And yes @tonmo, Glass squid is a good starting point.

 

[tonmo]

And yes @tonmo, Glass squid is a good starting point.

...uhm how about another hint?

 

[GPO87]

@tonmo well... these particular glass squid have a famous cartoon namesake.

 

[DWhatley]

Squidward?

 

[tonmo]

...hmm.... goofy, daffy, donald, bugs, porky, winnie... are we getting close??

 

[GPO87]

@tonmo You are very close with Winnie.... think a bit smaller and more... pink.

 

[tonmo]

lol!! DUH!! ...got me good

Helicocranchia

This squid is commonly known as the piglet squid and (honestly) I don't know how I didn't create a thread for this guy earlier. These squid are a riot! Piglet squid are the smallest of the cranchiids, reaching a maximum size of about 10 cm mantle length. They have an incredibly distinctive...

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