#vampire squid

[plusie]

[protectoursharks]

can you do one about vampire squids ? 🦑

Vampyroteuthis infernalis or Vampire Squid

It's (very dramatic) scientific name means "vampire squid from hell". However, the vampire squid is not actually a squid! It's actually the only animal in the Vampyroteuthidae family! It's separated into its own family because it can't change color or produce ink. Instead, it turns itself "inside out" (as shown above) to deter predators.

Proportionally, vampire squids also have the largest eyes compared to their body size! They eat mostly zooplankton, marine snow, and other organisms waste. They grow to be about the size of a football and live to be around 8 years old.

There's even evidence that vampire squids have been around since the Jurassic period- almost 200 million years ago!

[herpsandbirds]

Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), family Vampyroteuthidae, photographed in the deep sea off the Pacific Coast of North America

Vampire Squids are not actually true squids, but are in their own distinct groups of Cephalopods (most closely related to the Octopuses).

They only grow to a total length of up to 30 cm (~ 1 ft).

They have many light producing photophores on various locations around their body.

They live at depths of 600 to 900 m (2,000 to 3,000 ft) in oceans around the world.

photographs via: MBARI

[snailfish-enthusiast]

The wonderfully spooky Vampire Squid

[propalitetz]

quick doodle

[sylvermidnight]

[castercassette]

Vampire squid Eclipse

[sarahmackattack]

COMPLETELY forgot but! As promised, the finished vampire squid cloak! No pics of it on me, sadly, but the party was excellent.

Other costumes included a geothermal vent (papier mache princess-style hat complete with lipstick tubeworms and a fabric plume), an anglerfish, crown jellyfish, a wolf eel (not a deep sea critter per se but the costume was really cool), two firefly squids, a gulper eel, a boat captain, and a fisherman. We watched a couple deep-sea documentaries and tried to do a David Attenborough-based drinking game, but by the second documentary most of us had to stop because we got a little too drunk too fast.

This. Fuckin. Rules.

THANK YOU for sharing it!!

[dailycephalopods]

have you done vampire squids yet? those things are surely something

Daily Cephalopod #112

[maggiecheungs]

Vampyroteuthis Infernalis (Vampire squid) 🦑 for @lamentera​

[mossy-paws]

hi... can u draw boombox and subspace preddty please :D

I don’t have time to draw boom yet sadly but I hope this is good enough :3! Anyways vampire squid subspace HEHEHEHE

[linseedling]

Sticker sheet!!

[strawlessandbraless]

Just some underloved and overlooked deep sea creatures 💙

🌊 First up is this deranged muppet - The Deep Sea Telescopefish

🌊 Hatchetfish - they’re actually really fun at parties

🌊 The Sarcastic Fringehead - cool outfit, horrible personality

🌊Siphonophores - asexual, mostly keep to themselves

🌊 Barreleye fish - lights on but no one’s home

🌊 Vampire Squid - I’m weak for those blue eyes

🌊 The Frilled Shark - excellent hugger

🌊 Giant Isopod - always plotting

🌊 The Umbrella Gulper Eel - bet he’d beat Joey Chestnut in a hot dog eating challenge any day

🌊 The Goblin Shark - sensitive about the size of his nose

🌊 Deep Sea Anglerfish - this is a female, the males are tiny little guys that latch onto the females by biting them, they then meld with the female and basically become a spare set of gonads so the female can reproduce as she pleases. Love that for her

🌊 The ultra black Pacific blackdragon- soul eater

🌊 We’ll end it with the Sea Angel who was captured on film living under the ice of the White Sea in Russia

[eddieintheocean]

Vampire squids are

1) not vampires

2) not squids

Very upsetting and sad to know

[cypherdecypher]

Animal of the Day!

Vampire Squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis)

(Photo from Monterey Bay Aquarium)

Conservation Status- Unlisted

Habitat- Oceanwide

Size (Weight/Length)- 30 cm

Diet- Detritus; Marine snow

Cool Facts- Despite being called a vampire squid and possibly looking a little scary, your chance of encountering one of these little fellas, let alone being hurt by one, is next to none. They feast exclusively on detritus and marine snow, organic matter that falls from areas closer to the surface. Vampire squids are covered fin to tentacle in photophores, helping for communication or startling predators. If the lights don’t work, the squid inverts its tentacles to wrap around its body in a cocoon and expose its spines called a pineapple posture. Worse comes to worse, they spit bioluminescent mucus onto the predator and make their escape. Due to their interesting diet, vampire squids are susceptible to micro plastics filling their digestive tracts.

Rating- 13/10 (Not related to Dracula, Alucard, or Dio.)

Requested by @keaneblr

[venacoeurva]

New squid dropped! it’s not a fan of the sun, and is confused why there are suddenly so many vampires in what is basically its backyard 🦑❓

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