NickPheas
23-06-2007, 22:41
Observed today off St Abbs head.
A small orange cephalopod. About an inch long. The colour I'd expect of a North Sea Octopus. The thing had a bulbous body which made up the bulk of it's length and small tentacles at the end. Coming off the body were two filmy, tranlucent 'wings' roughly the size and shape of a half penny. It was definately swimming by moving them.
A baby cuttlefish has been suggested, and the ratio of body length to tentacle length seems about right for that, but the shape of the body was far more like that of an octopus. I also associate cuttlefish with a small rippling frill across the entire body and this looked far more like a dumbo octopus. All the pictures I can find on the web of baby cuttlefish just look like very small cuttlefish.
A small orange cephalopod. About an inch long. The colour I'd expect of a North Sea Octopus. The thing had a bulbous body which made up the bulk of it's length and small tentacles at the end. Coming off the body were two filmy, tranlucent 'wings' roughly the size and shape of a half penny. It was definately swimming by moving them.
A baby cuttlefish has been suggested, and the ratio of body length to tentacle length seems about right for that, but the shape of the body was far more like that of an octopus. I also associate cuttlefish with a small rippling frill across the entire body and this looked far more like a dumbo octopus. All the pictures I can find on the web of baby cuttlefish just look like very small cuttlefish.