Kind of self-explanatory, huh? Just try name a bizarre species of cephalopod! Either try to name the first one, or try to think of a weirder one... If you think of a good one, just give clues to it and try to get others to guess it!

Here's the first odd cephalopod:

*clears throat*
1. Lives veeeeeeery deep
2. Isn't as terrifying as its name suggests
3. Is no squid or octopus at all
4. There is no fourth clue. Muahahahaha!

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Me thinketh you be talkin aboot Vampyroteuthis

Here's one back at you:
The male is tiny, the female huge
She has warts

Vampyroteuthis? Whoah, you're good....

I'm guessing Moroteuthis. But that's quite a stumper.

Now...

1. Think Daddy Longlegs
2. Think really weird....
3. Think NEW....
4. Think BIG!

Steve: Ocythoe tuberculata?

Nope. Guess again. (A description will work, I'm not sure if they've named it yet)

Here's one back at you:
The male is tiny, the female huge
She has warts

Kondakovia longimana, could be...

Me thinketh you be talkin aboot Vampyroteuthis

Here's one back at you:
The male is tiny, the female huge
She has warts

The blanket octopus?

:usa:

1. Think Daddy Longlegs
2. Think really weird....
3. Think NEW....
4. Think BIG!

Probably the one they were calling a magnapinnid? With the 'elbows' in the ten identical arms?

Steve: Ocythoe tuberculata?

Bingo; just one clue for you next time!

Q: no eye lens

1. Think Daddy Longlegs
2. Think really weird....
3. Think NEW....
4. Think BIG!

Dosidicus,

It must be the "Mystery Squid," which I have not seen conclusively ID'ed or named, but has been linked to the Chiroteuthid line (which you can see more of if you click here. (http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Chiroteuthid_families&contgroup=Decapodiformes))

To see another big, thus-far-unknown squid, hie thee over to the "Physiology and Biology" forum and check out the photographs of "Mystery Squid 2." (http://www.tonmo.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=346)

Here's one for you:

What squid's name sounds like a mobile-telephone manufacturer?

:?:

Clem

WHOA! Tintenfisch got it!!!!!!

Nice.

Steve:It's got to be a nautilus. (I looked it up) :tomato: must... stop.. ..tomatoing........myself... :tomato: :tomato: :tomato:
:nautilus:

Here's a new one (also one clue):
The most sexually dimorphic cephalopods.
:usa:

WHOA! Tintenfisch got it!!!!!!


She's got skills; shame she's got a one-way ticket on a slow-boat to China.

Nautilus wasn't actually the one I was thinking about ... so there are 2 (you've got to find the other)

What squid's name sounds like a mobile-telephone manufacturer?

I suppose Teleoteuthis compacta (now Onychoteuthis) only counts as a mobile service provider... ;)

I suppose Teleoteuthis compacta (now Onychoteuthis) only counts as a mobile service provider... ;)

Oh my dear sweet Je--

That's damn good, Tintenfisch, but not the critter I was thinking of. You've got three of the letters in hand...you must be holding back.

Squid whose name sounds like a mobile-phone maunfacturer...

A squid who's trying to gobble up other squid's names and replace them with its own...

ooh, nice, I wanna join in on this trivia game, me first, me first, hehe. :P

That's damn good, Tintenfisch, but not the critter I was thinking of. You've got three of the letters in hand...you must be holding back.

Aw, shucks. :roll:

Indeed... I think the name came up as a pun on another forum? I will let others guess. I suspect the answer is almost unique.. ;)

The most sexually dimorphic cephalopods.
:usa:

Hmmmmm. Could be any of Argonautidae (Argonauta spp.), Ocythoidae (Ocythoe), Tremoctopodidae (Tremoctopus spp.) or Alloposidae (= Haliphronidae, Haliphron ). I need more clues for this one.....

Re the telephone one .... first letter O, last letter A? (Tintentoontipplekakafish told me....)

1. Bermudan....
2. May not exist....
3. Enourmous- 200 feet long.....

Let's see you work this out!

PS- it's a loch ness monster kinda thing, so if you're researching, don't try cephalopod sites. You won't find it.

The most sexually dimorphic cephalopods.
:usa:

Hmmmmm. Could be any of Argonautidae (Argonauta spp.), Ocythoidae (Ocythoe), Tremoctopodidae (Tremoctopus spp.) or Alloposidae (= Haliphronidae, Haliphron ). I need more clues for this one.....



One of them is right, two more clues

1. Nobody has kept one alive in an aquarium for two weeks
2. The females egg cases are prized finds for beachcombers.

Now that Steve knows exactly which one it is, lets have someone else guess.

1. Bermudan....
2. May not exist....
3. Enourmous- 200 feet long.....

Let's see you work this out!

PS- it's a loch ness monster kinda thing, so if you're researching, don't try cephalopod sites. You won't find it.

Only thing I can think of is Kraken.... :meso:

Squid whose name sounds like a mobile-phone maunfacturer...

A squid who's trying to gobble up other squid's names and replace them with its own...

A squid named named Onykia.


1. Bermudan....
2. May not exist....
3. Enourmous- 200 feet long.....

Is it that pesky old Octopus giganteus? Believed by some Bermudans (incl. "monster hunter" Teddy Tucker) to be responsible for various sinister acts, including serial lobster theft and malicious destruction of fishing equipment?

Clem

Yep! It's octopus giganteus all right. I was thinking Lusca.... but that's just one of it's common names... Well done!

Yep! It's octopus giganteus all right. I was thinking Lusca.... but that's just one of it's common names... Well done!

Here's another non existent ceph:

Amphibious.
Natural enemy is Sasquatch.
Habitat is being destroyed.

Only one link where you can find the answer, it's somewhere in this site...

Chtulhu? Maybe...
I dunno.[/quote]

I think its that tree octopus.

I think its that tree octopus.

Which one? There may be many..... :P

[One of them is right, two more clues

1. Nobody has kept one alive in an aquarium for two weeks
2. The females egg cases are prized finds for beachcombers.

Now that Steve knows exactly which one it is, lets have someone else guess.

Hmmmmm. I'll wait for someone else to pick it. I had them alive for > a week, but I can't remember exactly how long. It's all about procuring the right diet (they eat quite a lot of large, live fish and crustacean). We collected quite a few magnificent specimens in the upper 10 metres off the Wairarapa Coast, southeast North Island, New Zealand. Alive they are quite lovely!

At sea I had placed them in a recirculating system (rather than flow-to-waste), and when they died someone turned to me and said 'sorry, forgot to tell you but I've always thought that the ink of this think was toxic'. I wish that they had recalled this gem earlier on! That stuck, but I don't know who did the work to show that this was the case, if published (one did ink quite seriously during relocation); perhaps someone knows of a reference out there.

Again, a non existent cephlapod. I'm looking for its specific name....

Is a mean drunk :beer: :arrow: :yelling:
Lives in an apartment with another octopus :tentacle: :tentacle:

When drinks get angry eyebrows.

Is pictured on WhiteKiboko's Avatar.

Last Hint: :rainbow: :arrow: :octopus:

Nick, we've seen pictures of the Silly Octopus,are you sure it doesn't exist? I thought he was Pale Hippo's drinking buddy - don't tell me WK is drinking all that beer without any help!

:cthulhu: :tentacle: :cheers:

Melissa

Here's an interesting one. This ceph is...

:arrow: known only from extremely advanced reproductive stages

:arrow: currently designated as its own species but

:arrow: may be synonymous with something else



:?:

Here's an extremely easy one that I made confusing...

Last name can quack........

Actually it's not that confusing either........

Hmmmm...........Architeuthis.....oh I don't know.

How about A.drake?

Yo, Kat, as for yours, how about Valbyteuthis?

Tintenfisch,

Ignore my post above.

Methinks yours may possibly be Onykia, possible juvenile specimen of Moroteuthis.

Do I win a coconut, or is it back to the books?

Wellllll... maybe third time lucky... ? :roll:

Cirroctopus antarctica? No more clues?

:?

:arrow: 'Tis a squid

:arrow: 'Twas originally described in German

:arrow: The tentacle clubs are unknown

?sauerkraut with squid?

Is it Promachoteuthis sp. D?

My only guess would be Asperoteuthis sp. B, maybe? but I can't find anything about that species being described in german...? I give up!

OK, one last set of hints.

:arrow: The tentacles, though unknown, will have hooks on them

:arrow: The species is characterized in part by its gelatinous tissue

:arrow: If Ghengis had married an Irishwoman, their child's Latin name would have gone something like this

:idea: :squid: :?:

Enigmoteuthis odannyboykhani Bolstad, 2003? :x

OK, I'll tell ya. It's Chaunoteuthis mollis Appellöf, 1891. This is a species whose validity is currently under debate (on Tree of Life its current systematic status is given as Onychoteuthis Lichtenstein [sic] although there's no information given for a species of that name); it is generally agreed that Chaunoteuthis encompasses spent individuals of the other onychoteuthid genera. BUT certain dissimilarities suggest that it may also be its own kettle of fish; at the moment I'm translating Appellöf's original description from German and will post it here when it's done.
An enigma, indeed.

:grad:

Another easy fake one.

Huge.

Lots of tentacles.

No beak, just teeth.

No suckers on the tentacles.
:?:

:cthulhu: :cthulhu: :cthulhu:

Chthulu loves me, this I know
Because the high priest tells me so.
He won't eat me, no, not yet.
He's our lord, all dank and wet.

Someone said this when I ordered a plush Chthulu right after my sister told us she was pregnant. My nephew was very afraid of that doll. :(

Melissa

Another easy fake one.

Huge.

Lots of tentacles.

No beak, just teeth.

No suckers on the tentacles.
:?:

Nick,

Sounds like the "Deep Rising" beastie, to me.

:goofysca:

Clem

Tintenfisch = :twisted:

Thanks for ending the misery.

Should've seen that when I was scouring the ITIS. I learned a lot about all kinds of other cephs, so I should probably thank you. Right after I burn you in effigy. :wink:

That evil whatchamacallit from LOTR? I call him Rufus...

Another easy fake one.

Huge.

Lots of tentacles.

No beak, just teeth.

No suckers on the tentacles.
:?:

The sarlacc?

That evil whatchamacallit from LOTR? I call him Rufus...

Yes, Rufus/ The Watcher is correct. :)

That evil whatchamacallit from LOTR? I call him Rufus...

Yes, Rufus/ The Watcher is correct. :)

Whats a sarlacc?

Whats a sarlacc?

Seen Return of the Jedi? Big thing living in a pit in the desert. Although, you could argue that it didn't really have teeth.

A ceph that is not a squid, not a cuttlefish, not an octopus, but something in between.....

Steve, what was the ceph with no eye lens?

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis

The Vampire Squid From Hell.

Oh, and you'll like the attatchment...

A ceph that is not a squid, not a cuttlefish, not an octopus, but something in between.....

Steve, what was the ceph with no eye lens?

Cirrothauma

(one of those finned brutes)
Cheers
O

Oh, and you'll like the attatchment...

LOL

... not quite the mother of all squid. Some might say the arms are pointing in the wrong direction ... and that they should be wrapped around his neck .... but I'll stay out of the politics.

Nice tie.

Again, a non existent cephlapod. I'm looking for its specific name....

Is a mean drunk beer.gif icon_arrow.gif yelling.gif
Lives in an apartment with another octopus tentacle1.gif tentacle2.gif

When drinks get angry eyebrows.

Is pictured on WhiteKiboko's Avatar.

Last Hint: new_color_.gif icon_arrow.gif octopus.gif

Acid? From the Silly Octopi?

Last name can quack

Achiteuthis Dux?

No, yes, yes. The stubby squid!!!!

http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/Rpacifica.html

here's another adorable ceph (even though they all are

http://www.dal.ca/~ceph/TCP/Escolopes.html

Awwwwww

Nother one.

One clue, it too is obvious.

This ceph has proportionally the largest eyes of any animal in the world.

:?:

Nother one.

One clue, it too is obvious.

This ceph has proportionally the largest eyes of any animal in the world.

:?:


Your favourite ceph, Vampyroteuthis infernalis?

Damn you um....!

Nother one.

One clue, it too is obvious.

This ceph has proportionally the largest eyes of any animal in the world.

Vampyroteuthis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Damn you um...!!!!!!!!!!!

I was gonna write it, but you two had already posted! Um, you monkey!

Damn you um...!!!!!!!!!!!

You took my phrase!!! :x

I will have my revenge!!! :twisted:

I would call it "puss" as I call almost everything puss...

sorry, but it a long slow and very boring afternoon here in book cataloguing land... :bugout:
KRin

This ceph has proportionally the largest eyes of any animal in the world.


Aahhh..........obscure pub quiz moment.

Technically speaking, Architeuthis does not have the largest eye in the animal kingdom, though it has the largest eye of any currently living animal that we know of (except Mesonychoteuthis?).

In fact, the Jurassic ichthyosaurs Ophthalmosasaurus and Temnodontosaurus platyodon both had eyes that were larger. Temnodontosaurus had plates behind the eye that showed it had an eyeball of over 26cm.

There you go! Fact-o-rama.

This ceph has proportionally the largest eyes of any animal in the world.


Aahhh..........obscure pub quiz moment.

Technically speaking, Architeuthis does not have the largest eye in the animal kingdom, though it has the largest eye of any currently living animal that we know of (except Mesonychoteuthis?).

In fact, the Jurassic ichthyosaurs Ophthalmosasaurus and Temnodontosaurus platyodon both had eyes that were larger. Temnodontosaurus had plates behind the eye that showed it had an eyeball of over 26cm.

There you go! Fact-o-rama.

Arrrrrrrrgh..... not supposed to learn on weekends....

Anybody got more odd cephs?

Guess not, here's an extremely easy one.

Here's a pic, no clues this time, making it all the more easy.
http://tolweb.org/tree/eukaryotes/animals/mollusca/cephalopoda/coleoidea/decapodiformes/lepidoteuthid_families/octopoteuthidae/taningia/TaningiaLarge.jpg

This should take about three minutes.

Taningia Largea?

Whatever... Holy crap, that's one ugly dead squid.

Taningia Largea?

Whatever... Holy crap, that's one ugly dead squid.

You should clarify that the squid, while perhaps ugly in death, is in fact most resplendent in life. Certain members must not be offended, unless you wish to incur the wrath of a world-class wit... :wink:

I say that it's a possible dinner to me...

The ceph many doctors argue should not be allowed to see patients as it never really attended medical school...

What am I thinking of?

Zoidberg!

Zoidberg: "Well, if it isn't the hypochondriac... what's wrong with you today?"
Fry: "Well, my lead pipe hurts a little."
Zoidberg: "That's normal, next patient!"

Next clue:

Their patients include gulper eels

I appreciate ANY Futurama reference, of course, but that's not quite it...

Maybe my hinting is a little too strange... heck, it's what automatically pops into my mind whenever I see it written or hear this genus mentioned aloud, but...

I have no idea, since I'm no expert...Plus, I can't spell except for Archisomethingthis and O'lMessie