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Evil-looking Deep Sea Fish
Anglerfish (TL), Viperfish (TR) and Stoplight Loosejaw (B - by Alex Ries), with a truly massive dislocatable jaw, teeth in its throat and “night vision” light organs that illuminate hapless victims unable to see the wavelength they emit.
(via: Deep Sea News)
(via ichthyologist)
Japetella diaphana tentacles and buccal cavity
Japatella diaphana is an octopus member of the Bolitaenidae family, and like the other members of its family, is very small - 12 cm long at most. They live, eat, and breed in the pelagic zone of the ocean, unlike deep-sea squid, which rarely spend their entire lives at such depths.
Mature females have a bioluminescent photophore encircling their beak.
Die Cephalopoden. Ewald Rubasmen, 1910.
(via scientificillustration)
An illustration of Dana Octopus Squid, Taningia danae. The species is one of the larger bioluminescent squids, reaching up to 2.3 m in total length. It has been observed to emit blinding flashes of light from a pair of photophores on its arms in order to disorientate its prey.
Art by Chris Barela.
Bioluminescence in deep-sea bamboo coral Keratoisis flexibilis. The source says that it would release some amount of mucus and light if touched.
Phylliroe bucephala, a pelagic nudibranch. It is also one of the few nudibranchs that are bioluminescent. Its body is laterally compressed, somewhat like a conventional fish.
