Squid collected during the Exploring Pelagic Biodiversity of the Gulf of Alaska and the Impact of Its Seamounts expedition. Some of the most beautiful creatures living in the deep-ocean water column are cephalopods, squids and octopods, like this juvenile squid of an undetermined species.
Juvenile Squid
Image courtesy of Allen Collins, NOAA Fisheries National Systematic Laboratory and Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
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Squid collected during the Exploring Pelagic Biodiversity of the Gulf of Alaska and the Impact of Its Seamounts expedition. Some of the most beautiful creatures living in the deep-ocean water column are cephalopods, squids and octopods, like this juvenile squid of an undetermined species.