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Vampyroteuthis infernalis

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A young Vampire squid swimming among white particles in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Emőke Dénes / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pu_-_Vampyroteuthis_infernalis_-_2.jpg https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

A young Vampire squid swimming among white particles in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.

Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) model at the Natural History Museum in London, England.

Emőke Dénes / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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A young Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) surprised the research crew as we started to ascend from Sur Ridge in December 2013. Like many deep-sea cephalopds, vampire squid lack ink sacks. Instead of ink for defense, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus is expelled from the arm tips. National Marine Sanctuaries, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MBNMS_-_Juvenile_Vampire_Squid_(27667875204).jpg

A young Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) surprised the research crew as we started to ascend from Sur Ridge in December 2013. Like many deep-sea cephalopds, vampire squid lack ink sacks. Instead of ink for defense, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus is expelled from the arm tips.

A young Vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis) surprised the research crew as we started to ascend from Sur Ridge in December 2013. Like many deep-sea cephalopds, vampire squid lack ink sacks. Instead of ink for defense, a sticky cloud of bioluminescent mucus is expelled from the arm tips.

National Marine Sanctuaries, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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By Carl Chun - Chun C. Die Cephalopoden T. 2: Myopsida, Octopoda. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefseeexpedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898–1899, 18(2), Jena: Fischer, 1910 Tafel XC, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93867

Vampire squid
By Carl Chun - Chun C. Die Cephalopoden T. 2: Myopsida, Octopoda. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der deutschen Tiefseeexpedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia 1898–1899, 18(2), Jena: Fischer, 1910 Tafel XC, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93867