Talk:Vampire Squid
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The sentence "According to the Discovery Channel series Planet Earth, these spots are not techinically eyes, but rather a clever means to distract possible predators." is incorrect in the article. Whoever put that in there completely misunderstood what "Planet Earth" said. Someone more involved with this article than me-surfing-by-rolling-my-eyes-at-the-idiocy should fix it. (Eyespots are not what "Planet Earth" was talking about. PE was talking about decoy photoluminescent fake eyespots on the other end of the animal, not its actual eyespots.)jacquez 01:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Why is it called the vampire squid when it in fact does not practice exsanguination? Kent Wang 05:41, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- There is significant webbing between its arms. It has a posture where it folds its arms together, making it look like a cloaked creature of the night, a la early vampire movies. - UtherSRG 11:55, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't we move this to Vampire squid? The main reason I'm asking instead of doing is that I don't wanna do the work... --Chinasaur 22:00, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Nope. The Cephalopod Project is following the naming standard where Species common names are treated as proper nouns, and so each first letter is capitalized. - UtherSRG 22:44, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"vampire squid from hell"... nice name... Vhex Hvexscousin 18:23, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Also the lower picture is not of the vampire squid at all, it is of stauroteuthis syrtensis a type of benthopelagic cephalopod, someone should really fix this... personally I haven't found any pictures of vampyroteuthis which are not under copyright. Pierre 16/3/06
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[edit] Filament from arm pairs?
The article currently says that the vampire squid's filaments are derived from earlier arm pairs. However, [1] seems to say otherwise, saying that they're innervated very differently. --KJ 01:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- Interesting. Tree of Life Website refutes that. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question
Is there a picture that could be posted about the "pumpkin posture" that the article mentions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nickers (talk • contribs) .
- There aren't that many pictures of them to begin with, and they don't rightly pose for the camera. - UtherSRG (talk) 18:28, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Vampyroteuthis link
Would it be too much trouble to make a link so this page appears when searching for vampyroteuthis? Thanks. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jonesean13 (talk • contribs) 01:55, 30 March 2007 (UTC).
- There's already a redirect at Vampyroteuthis. Mgiganteus1 02:22, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Vampyroteuthis1.jpg
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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Vampyroteuthis2.jpg
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[edit] Female/Male/Offspring - Vampire Squid
I'm researching this, and I was just wondering, what to baby Vampire Squids look like (a description, not a photo, please)?
[edit] "Mass-Specific Metabolic Rate"
Okay, what the HECK is a "mass-specific metabolic rate? I mean, I know that it has something to do with digesting/processing food, but what IS it? Thank you.
