Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The study of cephalopods is a branch of malacology known as teuthology. Cephalopods became dominant during the Ordovician period, represented by primitive nautiloids . The class now contains two, only distantly related, extant subclasses: Coleoidea , which includes octopuses , squid , and cuttlefish ; and Nautiloidea , represented by Nautilus ...
Shellfish allergy is among the most common food allergies."Shellfish" is a colloquial and fisheries term for aquatic invertebrates used as food, including various species of molluscs such as clams, mussels, oysters and scallops, crustaceans such as shrimp, lobsters and crabs, and cephalopods such as squid and octopus.
Sailors cleaning a ship near St. Ilona Island and Cape Nigra were attacked by a giant squid; two were pulled into the deep, and a third later died from injuries sustained during the attack. One of the squid's arms, severed during the attack, was 7.5 meters (25 ft) in length; the full arm was estimated to be 10 meters (33 ft).
Eggs hatch in seawater, and larvae are eaten by crustaceans, usually euphausids. The infected crustaceans are subsequently eaten by fish or squid, and the nematodes burrow into the wall of the gut and encyst in a protective coat, usually on the outside of the visceral organs, but occasionally in the muscle or beneath the skin.
Myopsida is one of the four orders of squid.It consists of two families: the monotypic Australiteuthis and the diverse and commercially important Loliginidae (~50 species). ). Some taxonomists classify this taxon as a suborder of the order Teuthida, in which case it is known as Myo
Of those, 79% involved a virus going from one animal species to another animal species. Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to ...
However, if the glass squid is spotted, it can quickly fill up its chromatophores, darkening its entire body. It will then squirt ink and swim away to safety, relatively unseen through the dark ...
It is known by many scientists as Vampyroteuthis infernalis, which means "vampire squid from hell," but the bizarre creature actually doesn't kill its prey. RELATED: Photos of bizarre sea animals