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Lycoteuthis springeri Male Photophores

Richard E. Young and Michael Vecchione

 

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Figure. Dorsal view of a male L. springeri showing photophores of arms II and III.

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Figure. Dorsal view of the same male showing spherical surface photophores of the tail and posterior mantle and embedded, elongate photophores in the tail. The orange pigmentation on the mantle is presumably a color filter for visceral photophores; the orange color could be an artifact of freezing.


Photographs of frozen and thawed male squid captured by Lisa Hendrickson.
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA


National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. , USA

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