Teuthowenia megalops
Description:
Description: A bathyscaphoid squid (Teuthowenia megalops) swimming in the "cockatoo" posture. The animal rotates around the spindle-shaped digestive gland, which it keeps vertical regardless of the orientation of the mantle and head. Date: 2004. Source: Video courtesy of Estuary to the Abyss 2004 Exploration. Author: George Sedberry, NOAA-OE.
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Spiralia (spiralians)
- Mollusca (molluscs)
- Cephalopoda (cephalopods)
- Coleoidea (coleoids)
- Decapodiformes
- Oegopsida
- Cranchioidea
- Cranchiidae (glass squids)
- Taoniinae
- Teuthowenia
- Teuthowenia megalops (Atlantic cranch squid)
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- George Sedberry, NOAA-OE
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- Video courtesy of Estuary to the Abyss 2004 Exploration
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