Squid Who Make Their Own Light

Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 20:31 in Physics & Chemistry

Alternative alliterative title: Long-tailed Light-up Loliginids!I've mentioned the two flavors of squid before: the open-ocean oegopsids and the nearshore myopsids. Most myopsids are in the family Loliginidae, which contains all your familiar calamari squid, market squid, and so on. Loliginids are traditional, uncomplicated, straightforward squid. They always look like squid--unlike oegopsids, which sometimes look like jellyfish or manta rays or piglets. read more

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