The Cellar - Oct 22, 2010: Incirrate & Cirrate

Yeah an Octopus, but when they're living down deep the names get fancier.

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As part of a NERC funded project the deep-sea cephalopod fauna of the NE Atlantic was described for the first time (Collins et al., 2001). The benthic fauna is dominated by octopods, with incirrates abundant at depths 500-1500 and cirrate octopods dominating at depths greater than 1500m.

I can't tell if this is incirrate or cirrate, it's got features of both.

http://cellar.org/2010/cirrate.jpg

1500 meters, that's blowout preventer territory.

This one is definitely cirrate.

Aw hell, they're all edible. :haha:

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