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I was expecting the Octosquid today.

( http://www.thehawaiichannel.com/news/13630402/detail.html?rss=hon&psp=news )

Yeah, I did too. Because I blogged about it and commented on it here not too long ago. Link: http://petroniusarbiter.blogspot.com/2007/07/freaky-sea-creature-discovered-near.html

I'm surprised todays article wasn't the half squid half octopus one on /.

Octosquid is a silly name. Why not Squipus ? Calapus ? etc ...

Another link to the Squipus- http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/05/news/story03.html

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/06/2111251&from=rss

@Rob Mayfield:
"Octosquid is a silly name. Why not Squipus ?"
Your comment reminds me of a Flanders and Swann song - #3 of "Songs for our time". The name of the song in an indescribable silly noise. As Flanders put it, "It was originally called, ah, '[a different indescribable silly noise]', but we thought that sounded rather stupid ..."

As far as I can tell, the "octosquid" claims are mostly hype. It's in no way intermediate between octopus and squid; it's just a squid with no tentacles, which is not unheard of -- there are other squid species that don't have tentacles as adults. Note that they're talking about it as a possible new species in an existing genus, not a representative of a new family or order.

It's cool-looking, though.

Crap, I come here to pass on a link to the Octosquid to Bruce, and everyone else already beat me to it? I guess Friday Squid Blogging is pretty popular!

http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/05/news/story03.html

Making a squid flower is easy: just feed it Miracle-Gro.

From Australia for your next Friday Squid Blog.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-squid-picture.html