Flapjack Devilfish in Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
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Uploaded by sanctuaries on Jun 25, 2007
This was previously misidentified as the dumbo octopus. It is actually the flapjack devilfish - /Opisthoteuthis californiana/. This footage was taken at Olympic Coast, WA. Thank you to @ScottyZissou and taxonimists Jim Cosgrove, Royal British Columbia Museum and Mike Vecchione, Smithsonian for making the definitive ID.
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oh my gosh it looks just like a hippopotamus without the body!
2 years ago 20
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aww!! it looks like a hippo in a river .. how cute!!
4 years ago 14
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best name for a species EVER!
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I say this is one of the most adorable animals in the world, but everyone I show it to doesn't agree :P
1 year ago 2
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I'ts cute but creepy! I like it!!!!!!!!!
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it may look cute but i bet ya. its planning to take over the world!!!
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It's one of the most cutest things in the sea <3
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But you can't have one....
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i love this thing! if only i could have one!
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@Chihiro1432 im sure someone already did!
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It is a video of the pancake devilfish, Opisthoteuthis californiana. A cirrate octopus.
ScottyZissou 1 year ago
@ScottyZissou Thank you - we took your identification and passed it along to various researchers who agreed. Taxonomists making the definitive ID were Jim Cosgrove, Royal British Columbia Museum and Mike Vecchione, Smithsonian. They made the same identification as you did - /Opisthoteuthis californiana/ - the flapjack devilfish. Another of our researchers passed along that the Pancake devilfish looks to be a different species
- O. depressa.
sanctuaries 1 year ago