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Chris Mah

@echinoblog.bsky.social

The "starfish guy"(but also a little about a lot of marine invertebrates, #echinoday #echinoderms. Kaiju, comics enthusiast. Marine scientist, taxonomist, deep-sea researcher. Statements/posts made here are my own & DO NOT REPRESENT HOST organizations

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Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 13h ago

on the shores of Japan visitors come to see the blue glow and they are a boon to fishermen who collect the dying squid. Thea adorable Bobtail squid (actually, not a squid, but a cephalopod of order Sepiolida, closer to cuttlefish) are also called dumpling squid or stubby squid.

My cute and round little bobtail squid linocut in white and orange on 8” x 8” black washi paper.
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 13h ago

thanks to bioluminescent organs and its unique slow oxygen metabolism. Its eyes are disproportionately large. Despite its name it feeds on detritus, not blood. The firefly squid (Watasenia scintillans), also called sparkling enope squid or hotaru-ika in Japan live at depth (200 to 400 m) and they

My linocut print shows the firefly squid against a white background on the left side of the square so you can see the whole animal and then its reflection is shown on the right against dark blue so you can see how its bioluminescence would appear underwater with fluorescent blue spots. On the left it’s a deep orange-pink squid with large gold and black eye. On the right you can see its body is covered with bright blue spots. The print is 8" x 8" (20.3 cm x 20.3 cm) on white Japanese kozo (or mulberry) paper.
Ele Willoughby@minouette.bsky.social · 13h ago

October 10 is Squid and Cuttlefish Awareness Day - or Squittle Day for the tentacular cephalopods, so enjoy my linocuts of a vampire squid, firefly squid & bobtail squid! The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)or the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout

This is a hand-carved and hand-printed lino block print on delicate ivory Japanese mulberry paper, 9.25” x 12.5” of a vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis). The ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side, unlike either octopuses or squids. The squid is upside down with purple head and yellow tent like areas between its legs. The filaments arc around above against the blue background.
Bob Carney@below500m.bsky.social · 22h ago

Tough one, I'll guess Galatheathuria, a synallatid noted for swimming that is similar to Paelopatides that does escape swimming. Digital video can do strange things to dark images. I do not know if the "velvet-like" texture is real or artifact.

Cephalopods Daily@cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 9h ago

The big-eye jellyhead (Inopinoteuthis magna), in addition to having a very silly name, is thought to be the largest species of cirrate octopus, a group of octopus with small tendrils called cirri, fins and an internal shell. One specimen of this species had a total length of 1.7 m. #OCTOtober

MBARI@mbarinews.bsky.social · 3d ago

Arms up if you love octopuses! 🐙🙋 #WorldOctopusDay⁠ ⁠ Deep-sea organisms use a variety of ways to swim. Most cephalopods, like this gliding Benthoctopus sp., have the ability to move by jet propulsion. This one was observed pulsing its arms and jetting gracefully through the water.

Nicola Crockford@numenini.bsky.social · 4w ago

Especially on the subaqua branches of the bankside Willows, & sheet pilings in their shade, spectacular growths of Freshwater Sponges (Spongillidae). Here in the lower River Little Ouse, where the flow is slow, it needs these finger like growths to 📈 surface area for filter feeding. #SpongeThursday

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