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Thursday
Aug122010

The solution to Bit-o-Critter round 28

I’ll chalk it up to the change of domain in the middle of the round, but there were no guesses on round 28 of BoC.  Here’s the solutions:

28A - Flying Squid - Ommastrephes bartramii.  It is a lifelong dream of mine to see one of these bad boys.  Have any of you seen one?  if so where, and what was it like?

 

28B - Boxing crab, Lybia tesselata.  David Gross, the Round 27 winner picked this one.  I admit I was a bit mean in the crop because I put a bit of the crab and a bit of the anemone it carries.  I know next to nothing about this critter, perhaps David can enlighten us in the comments.  Funky looking thing though, like some sort of submarine cheerleader.

 

Tuesday
Jun222010

The solution to Bit-o-Critter round 24


Well that was quick; I guess I made it too easy.  Heather D guessed correctly that it was the beautiful Pyjama Squid, Sepioloidea lineolata.  These gorgeous little cephalopods hail from my home country of Australia, just like the wrasse in BoC 23b, which is still up for grabs.  I think technically pyjama squids are a cuttlefish because the eye is a slit not a round pupil and because the undulating fin runs the full margin of the hood.  I could be wrong, but thats what I was always taught.  Perhaps someone with more cephalopod knowledge can chime in here.

Photo credit: Mark Norman @ the cephalopod page