it's got hair on its tentacles!

**monty** · Dec 12, '06, 1:55pm

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2...his_sloani.php

**Tintenfisch** · Dec 12, '06, 3:36pm

Fantastic!

**tonmo** · Dec 12, '06, 11:34pm

**joefish84** · Dec 13, '06, 1:33am

I ALMOST CUT MY HAIR! it happened just the other day... it was gettin kinda long...

**main_board** · Dec 13, '06, 7:34pm

Cool! From the pictures the specimen looks to be in quite good condition given its ungraceful upheaval via trawl.

Cheers!

**Jean** · Dec 16, '06, 5:08pm

I WANT one!!!!!

J

**Toren** · Oct 26, '07, 9:34pm

What am I looking at here - are these TEETH instead of a beak?

http://www.tolweb.org/tree/ToLimages/PromachSpCOral.jpg

**cuttlegirl** · Oct 26, '07, 9:57pm

I can't see the link...

**monty** · Oct 26, '07, 11:38pm

Originally Posted by cuttlegirl

I can't see the link...

I can't either, but a google search found this:

edit: a ToLweb link that works

edit: better TOLweb link with species description

**Scuba Kid** · Oct 27, '07, 8:32am

This is the picture shown in the link. Pretty weird looking!

**Steve O'Shea** · Oct 30, '07, 3:50pm

Originally Posted by Toren

What am I looking at here - are these TEETH instead of a beak?

No. Just something weird happening with the buccal bulb musculature (surrounding the beaks). The exposure is a bit low so I can't honestly tell whether the beaks are still in there (there's very little damage to the buccal membrane, so I guess that they are).

It would be so cool to have a squid with teeth! These (muscles) look more like dentures.

**monty** · Oct 30, '07, 3:58pm

Originally Posted by Steve O'Shea

No. Just something weird happening with the buccal bulb musculature (surrounding the beaks). The exposure is a bit low so I can't honestly tell whether the beaks are still in there (there's very little damage to the buccal membrane, so I guess that they are).

It would be so cool to have a squid with teeth! These (muscles) look more like dentures.

I thought I read that the beak was not described in detail on TOLweb because they didn't want to dissect the type specimen that much, so I inferred that the beak is in there somewhere in the pic... but maybe that was the sister species...