#cirrate octopus

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༄.°⋆｡˚ Baby Cirrate Octopus !!

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Cirrate Octopus (Cirroteuthis muelleri), family Cirroteuthidae, deep sea - Canadian Basin, Arctic Ocean

photograph via: NOAA/OE Census of Marine Life cruise to the Canadian Basin

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I just want to post this with the caveat that these estimated sizes are based on fossilised beaks, and scaling up based on other cirrate octopods might not be accurate. Still hilarious that that there might have been an absolutely gargantuan prehistoric blobby octopus.

Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea6285

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Various views of deep sea cirrate octopus, C. muelleri, from a Census of Marine Life cruise to the Canadian Basin.

via: NOAA/OE Census of Marine Life cruise to the Canadian Basin

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Cirrate Octopods

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⁠The Cirrate Octopus - ⁠ Cirroteuthis muelleri

These incredible animals certainly deserve some celebration! ⁠This Cirroteuthis muelleri was spotted gliding gracefully through the dark waters 2,734 meters (8969.816 feet) deep. This group of octopuses—the cirrates— is typically found on or near the seafloor where they use finger-like cirri on their arms to catch small crustacean, worms, and other prey items. ⁠ See how it glides in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6f9M4pyRqY

via:  Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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The Cirrate octopus, Cirroteuthis muelleri 

This orange cirrate octopus, Cirroteuthis muelleri,  was captured on film by MBARI's ROV Tiburon in Astoria Canyon off the Oregon coast at 2,727 meters (8,946 feet) deep. It gave us a perfect view of the cirri-lined arms as it pulled its arms up over its eyes, probably to shade their eyes from the bright lights of the ROV. The cirri are finger-like appendages that it uses to sift through sediment to find prey like small crustaceans and worms. 

via: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI)

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Unusually Large Dumbo Octopus Sighting

Cirrate, or finned, octopods (which are also known as “dumbo” octopods because the fins on the sides of their bodies make them look like the flying elephant in the Disney cartoon) can be divided based on their behavior.

One group spends a lot of time sitting on the bottom but sometimes gets up and swims by a combination of fin flapping and jellyfish-like pulses of the arms and web. Members of the other group seem to spend all of their time up in the water and not on the bottom.

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