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Fancy meeting you in here Tani. I wasn't sure whether you'd cotton on so fast, but yes the dwelling on Taningia danae was just for you.
The funny thing about the photophores on this one was that instead of being the yellow with which I was familiar, they were very pale, quite washed out in appearance, but not at all damaged by the trawl.
The specimen was very small for the species - don't quote me on this, but the mantle was only ~ 0.5 metres. They grow an awful-lot larger than this (as you know). I think that there's a second species out there, either with a name (in synonymy of danae), or a new species. No matter where you turn in cephalopod systematics there are problems to resolve. We'll get to this one as soon as we can, but we actually need more material.
Pics to come ...... ; cheers
Me
The funny thing about the photophores on this one was that instead of being the yellow with which I was familiar, they were very pale, quite washed out in appearance, but not at all damaged by the trawl.
The specimen was very small for the species - don't quote me on this, but the mantle was only ~ 0.5 metres. They grow an awful-lot larger than this (as you know). I think that there's a second species out there, either with a name (in synonymy of danae), or a new species. No matter where you turn in cephalopod systematics there are problems to resolve. We'll get to this one as soon as we can, but we actually need more material.
Pics to come ...... ; cheers
Me