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dailycephalopods · 2 months ago
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a paper nautilus perhaps? 💕
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Daily Cephalopod #204
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sitting-on-me-bum · 6 months ago
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A Paper Nautilus drifts on a piece of ocean debris at night, surrounded by heavy sediment.
Photo: Philippines
Photographer: Jialing Cai
Ocean Photographer of the Year
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rapidpunches · 6 months ago
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Enjoy these sea critters :)
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herpsandbirds · 1 year ago
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Brown Paper Nautilus aka Winged Argonaut (Argonauta hians), riding a jellyfish, family Argonautidae, Anilao Janao Bay, Philippines
photograph by Dennis Corpuz
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meldrumart · 2 years ago
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Various merms from over the years.
old and a little rough, but I still like em
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stomach-rental · 2 years ago
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Watch your step!
Will and Louis belong to @peachnewt and her series, Getting in Deep.
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littledoughty · 1 month ago
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The argonaut octopus is pelagic, and unusual in that it lives close to the ocean’s surface and that the females secrete a paper thin protective shell, which is unique to the genus.
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emmaklee · 1 year ago
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paper nautilus
ph Jeffrey R. Farmer
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ravene · 4 months ago
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Chibi Danila WIP
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nauti-lass · 5 months ago
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argonaut sona :3
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aeriona · 2 years ago
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Simple Cover artwork for a biology document/project I’m writing to channel my concentrated autism into (For the good of mankind). Might replace it or greyscale it, but it’s fine for now.
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dailycephalopods · 1 year ago
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Paper Nautilus? Those boys are lovely and I feel like they're SO underrated
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Daily Cephalopod #6
These are Argonauts! (Also nicknamed The Paper Nautilus)
To spread some Argonaut love, here's some cool facts!
The females grow much larger than males (about 8 times larger) and they produce a thin eggcase, or their "shell"
Females can mate and reproduce multiple times in their life, while the males only mate once and die shortly after
The males mate by removing their hectocotyl arm, which is then stored in the females eggcase!
The hectocotylus is the modified tentacle on male cepholpods that is used for mating and it was first discovered on an argonaut! (although it was originally misidentified as a parasitic worm attached to the mantle of the female it was discovered on)
The nickname 'Paper Nautilus' is quite misleading, because Argonauts are actually octopuses!
Argonauts have often been observed floating with/on salps, jellyfish, plant debris, driftwood, and even other argonauts at all stages of life!
Argonauts do not reside near the sea floor, they tend to drift closer to the surface and are the only known pelagic octopus!
Like many other octopuses, they have ink, they can change color, and they have venom!
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sitting-on-me-bum · 6 months ago
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A female paper nautilus with egg case rides a small jellyfish, taken on a blackwater dive, Anilao, Philippines
Photographer: Renee Cappozzola
Ocean Photographer of the Year
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frog-beans-blogs-things · 2 years ago
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Cooking something
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squephalopod · 2 years ago
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Argonauta argo
gastric emptying girlboss
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honkifex · 1 year ago
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i gave the shell animal a name and ref i like it its silly and its short as fuck
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