Talk:Vampire Squid
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Why is it called the vampire squid when it in fact does not practice exsanguination? Kent Wang 05:41, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- There is significant webbing between its arms. It has a posture where it folds its arms together, making it look like a cloaked creature of the night, a la early vampire movies. - UtherSRG 11:55, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Shouldn't we move this to Vampire squid? The main reason I'm asking instead of doing is that I don't wanna do the work... --Chinasaur 22:00, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Nope. The Cephalopod Project is following the naming standard where Species common names are treated as proper nouns, and so each first letter is capitalized. - UtherSRG 22:44, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
"vampire squid from hell"... nice name... Vhex Hvexscousin 18:23, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Also the lower picture is not of the vampire squid at all, it is of stauroteuthis syrtensis a type of benthopelagic cephalopod, someone should really fix this... personally I haven't found any pictures of vampyroteuthis which are not under copyright. Pierre 16/3/06
[edit] Filament from arm pairs?
The article currently says that the vampire squid's filaments are derived from earlier arm pairs. However, [1] seems to say otherwise, saying that they're innervated very differently. --KJ 01:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
- Interesting. Tree of Life Website refutes that. - UtherSRG (talk) 01:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question
Is there a picture that could be posted about the "pumpkin posture" that the article mentions? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nickers (talk • contribs) .
