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70 relations: Alaska, Alcide d'Orbigny, BBC, Bioluminescence, British Columbia, California, Cephalopod, Cephalopod beak, Cephalopod eye, Cephalopod fin, Cephalopod intelligence, Cephalopod limb, Cephalopod size, Chile, Chromatophore, Colossal squid, Copepod, Crittercam, Crustacean, Diel vertical migration, Family (biology), Fish, Flanders Marine Institute, Georg Johann Pfeffer, Giant squid, Gulf of California, Humboldt Current, IUCN Red List, Japetus Steenstrup, Jeremy Wade, John Edward Gray, KING-TV, Kraken, List of marine molluscs of Chile, Long Beach Peninsula, Louise Allcock, Mail (armour), Mantle (mollusc), Mark Carwardine, Mexico, Monotypic taxon, Monterey Bay, National Geographic, Ocean acidification, Octopus, Ommastrephidae, Ommastrephinae, Oregon, Pacific Ocean, Peru, ..., Photophore, Plankton, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Puget Sound, Radula, Recreational diving, RV Western Flyer, Scott Cassell, Shoaling and schooling, Siphon (mollusc), Spanish language, Squid, Stephen Fry, Subfamily, Tentacle, Tierra del Fuego, Trophic level, Washington (state), World Register of Marine Species, 1997–98 El Niño event. Expand index (20 more) »
Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Alcide d'Orbigny
Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (6 September 1802 – 30 June 1857) was a French naturalist who made major contributions in many areas, including zoology (including malacology), palaeontology, geology, archaeology and anthropology.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.
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Bioluminescence
Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by a living organism.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cephalopod
A cephalopod is any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda (Greek plural κεφαλόποδα, kephalópoda; "head-feet") such as a squid, octopus or nautilus.
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Cephalopod beak
All extant cephalopods have a two-part beak, or rostrum, situated in the buccal mass and surrounded by the muscular head appendages.
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Cephalopod eye
Cephalopods, as active marine predators, possess sensory organs specialized for use in aquatic conditions.
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Cephalopod fin
Cephalopod fins, sometimes known as wings,Young, R.E., M. Vecchione & K.M. Mangold (1999).
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Cephalopod intelligence
Cephalopod intelligence has an important comparative aspect in the understanding of intelligence because it relies on a nervous system fundamentally different from that of vertebrates.
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Cephalopod limb
All cephalopods possess flexible limbs extending from their heads and surrounding their beaks.
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Cephalopod size
Cephalopods vary enormously in size.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.
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Chromatophore
Chromatophores are pigment-containing and light-reflecting cells, or groups of cells, found in a wide range of animals including amphibians, fish, reptiles, crustaceans and cephalopods.
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Colossal squid
The colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, from Greek mesos (middle), onycho (claw, nail), and teuthis (squid)), sometimes called the Antarctic squid or giant cranch squid, is believed to be the largest squid species in terms of mass.
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Copepod
Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat.
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Crittercam
Crittercam is a small package of instruments including a camera that can be attached to a wild animal to study its behaviour in the wild.
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Crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such familiar animals as crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, woodlice, and barnacles.
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Diel vertical migration
Diel vertical migration (DVM), also known as diurnal vertical migration, is a pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as copepods, living in the ocean and in lakes.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fish
Fish are gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits.
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Flanders Marine Institute
The Flanders Marine Institute (Dutch: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) provides a focal point for marine scientific research in Flanders, northern Belgium.
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Georg Johann Pfeffer
Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931) was a German zoologist, primarily a malacologist, a scientist who studies mollusks.
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Giant squid
The giant squid (genus Architeuthis) is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae.
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Gulf of California
The Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez, Sea of Cortés or Vermilion Sea; locally known in the Spanish language as Mar de Cortés or Mar Bermejo or Golfo de California) is a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean that separates the Baja California Peninsula from the Mexican mainland.
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Humboldt Current
The Humboldt Current, also called the Peru Current, is a cold, low-salinity ocean current that flows north along the western coast of South America.
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IUCN Red List
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data List), founded in 1964, has evolved to become the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biological species.
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Japetus Steenstrup
Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup (8 March 1813 – 20 June 1897) was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor.
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Jeremy Wade
Jeremy John Wade (born 23 March 1956) is a British television presenter and author of books on angling.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray, FRS (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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KING-TV
KING-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 48), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Seattle, Washington, United States and also serving Tacoma.
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Kraken
The kraken is a legendary cephalopod-like sea monster of giant size that is said to dwell off the coasts of Norway and Greenland.
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List of marine molluscs of Chile
This list of marine molluscs of Chile is a partial list of marine mollusc species which have been recorded in Chile.
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Long Beach Peninsula
The Long Beach Peninsula is an arm of land in western Washington state.
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Louise Allcock
Louise Allcock is a British researcher, best known for her work on ecology and evolution of the cephalopods of the Southern Ocean and deep sea.
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Mail (armour)
Mail or maille (also chain mail(le) or chainmail(le)) is a type of armour consisting of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh.
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Mantle (mollusc)
The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.
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Mark Carwardine
Mark Carwardine (born 9 March 1959) is a zoologist who achieved widespread recognition for his Last Chance to See conservation expeditions with Douglas Adams, first aired on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
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Mexico
Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Monterey Bay
Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO or) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.
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Ocean acidification
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth's oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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Octopus
The octopus (or ~) is a soft-bodied, eight-armed mollusc of the order Octopoda.
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Ommastrephidae
Ommastrephidae is a family of squid containing three subfamilies, 11 genera, and over 20 species.
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Ommastrephinae
Ommastrephinae is a subfamily of squids under the family Ommastrephidae.
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Oregon
Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.
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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Photophore
A photophore is a glandular organ that appears as luminous spots on various marine animals, including fish and cephalopods.
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Plankton
Plankton (singular plankter) are the diverse collection of organisms that live in large bodies of water and are unable to swim against a current.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) is the official scientific journal of the National Academy of Sciences, published since 1915.
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Puget Sound
Puget Sound is a sound along the northwestern coast of the U.S. state of Washington, an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, and part of the Salish Sea.
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Radula
The radula (plural radulae or radulas) is an anatomical structure that is used by mollusks for feeding, sometimes compared to a tongue.
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Recreational diving
Recreational diving or sport diving is diving for the purpose of leisure and enjoyment, usually when using scuba equipment.
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RV Western Flyer
RV Western Flyer is a twin hulled SWATH research vessel operated by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI).
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Scott Cassell
Scott Cassell (born 1960 or 1961) is an American explorer, underwater filmmaker and counter-terrorism operative.
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Shoaling and schooling
In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling (pronounced), and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling (pronounced). In common usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely.
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Siphon (mollusc)
A siphon is an anatomical structure which is part of the body of aquatic molluscs in three classes: Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda (members of these classes include saltwater and freshwater snails, clams, octopus, squid and relatives).
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Squid
Squid are cephalopods of the two orders Myopsida and Oegopsida, which were formerly regarded as two suborders of the order Teuthida, however recent research shows Teuthida to be paraphyletic.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.
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Subfamily
In biological classification, a subfamily (Latin: subfamilia, plural subfamiliae) is an auxiliary (intermediate) taxonomic rank, next below family but more inclusive than genus.
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Tentacle
In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates.
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Tierra del Fuego
Tierra del Fuego (Spanish for "Land of Fire") is an archipelago off the southernmost tip of the South American mainland, across the Strait of Magellan.
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Trophic level
The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food chain.
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Washington (state)
Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
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World Register of Marine Species
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.
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1997–98 El Niño event
The 1997–98 El Niño was regarded as one of the most powerful El Niño–Southern Oscillation events in recorded history, resulting in widespread droughts, flooding and other natural disasters across the globe.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt_squid
