Sentences with phrase «bobtail squid»

WASHINGTON, D.C. — No bigger than a thumb, the Hawaiian bobtail squid needs all the help it can get to survive.

We spotted sea slugs, couple of bobtail squids, cattle fish and decorator crabs.

The night dive was at on the sandy slope of Bus Stop, where the highlights included encounters with starry night octopus and tiny bobtail squid.

The Hawaiian bobtail squid creates its own light, using special organs filled with glowing bacteria.

Now, the researchers have treated bobtail squid eggs with antibiotic and left them in seawater.

At first blush, the Hawaiian bobtail squid looks like just another bioluminescent cephalopod.

After emerging from its egg, the juvenile bobtail squid acquires the bacteria from the environment, and they start the process of colonizing its developing light organs.

The Japanese bobtail squid and luminescent marine bacteria live in blissful harmony.

One of the many highlights of this trip was the night dive at «Bontoh» on the volcanic island of Sangeang where we found some interactive coconut octopus, a teeny tiny juvenile bright yellow (unidentified) frogfish, seahorses, ornate and rough - snout ghostpipefish, along with many cute - as - a-button bobtail squids.

We spotted pigmy squid, sea slugs, couple of bobtail squids and decorator crabs.

Make sure to try out night dives as you might catch sight of the epaulette shark which seems to walk across the reef, or the tiny bobtail squid.

In the reproductive tract of the Hawaiian bobtail squid, there is a mysterious gland that has puzzled researchers for almost a century.

Not the bobtail squid, which leaves its eggs unattended on coral reefs.

We learn, for example, how bacteria allow the Hawaiian bobtail squid to glow, how they permit pea aphids to subsist on nothing but plant sap, and how the wood rat has coopted them so it can digest otherwise toxic creosote.

Like many of its relatives, the bobtail squid makes deft use of its light - emitting photophores to hunt, communicate with its peers, and hide from predators lurking below.

A Hawaiian bobtail squid, come the dawn, flushes its luminous Vibriofischeri partners into the surrounding water.

A great week for spotting stuff this week also with frogfish, robust ghost pipe fish, bobtail squid, mimic octopus, ornate ghost pipe fish, a whole host of nudis and all of it just of the house reef!!

We've seen anything from ornate ghost pipefish, flamboyant cuttlefish and painted frogfish to bobtail squids and flabellina nudiebranch.

However at night a different world comes to live, a world where you will see Spanish dancers, the school of huge Bumphead parrotfish in their sleeping cocoons, Flashlight fish, Bobtail squid, sea moths, ghost pipefish, cuttlefish, starry night octopus, mimic octopus and different kinds of nudibranchs!

Raja Ampat, Indonesia - Over 1,200 fish species, 600 coral species, 699 mollusc species, many species of seahorses especially pygmies, manta rays, various sharks, including wobbegongs and walking sharks, turtles, dolphins, octopus, cuttlefish and bobtail squid.

Regular sightings of frogfish, ghostpipefish, bobtail squids, stonefish, blue - ring and mimic octopus — and of course seahorses!

A few things you may spot here are seahorses, frogfish, blue - ring and mimic octopus, ghost pipefish, bobtail squid and all sorts of nudibranches.

Maumere Bay is particularly famous for its incredible muck diving, where Ambon scorpion fish, mimic octopuses, wonderpus, bobtail squids, skeleton shrimps, wasp fish, pipe horses, frog fish, ghost pipefish, pygmy seahorses, and colorful mandarin fish mating at sunset are just a few animals to observe during an early night dive.

Pleurobrancus, bobtail squid, marble shrimp and decorated crab were some of the creatures we founded.

Bobtail squid, Decorate crabs, spider crab, flat worms, moray eel was some of the marine life we found it.

Again our divers spotted 2 walking sharks, crocodile fish, few lobsters, decorator crabs and bobtail squid.

We saw: walking shark, reef octopus, bobtail squid and moray eel.

We spotted: pigmy sea horse, candy crabs, bobtail squid, wobbegong shark, frogfish, toad fish, stone fish, nudibranch and at the end of the dive walking shark!

We saw: moray eel, bobtail squid, pygmy cuttlefish and pygmy octopus.

Was a fantastic last night dive at Molana wall where we spotted many nice creatures as: Bobtail squid, pygmy squid, spider crab, and cattle fish... excellent night dive!!!!

To prevent potential prey from spotting its shadow on the seafloor, the bobtail squid emits just enough light to match the moonlight shining upon it.

The absolute wonder and brilliance of Mother Nature can be seen in creatures great and small; in the case of the Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes), we're talking a mere inch in length.