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| Other terrestrial Cephalopods; Terrestrial non-coleoids & less respected terrestrial coleoid | |
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| Topic Started: May 3 2010, 09:00 PM (355 Views) | |
| megasquidward | May 3 2010, 09:00 PM Post #1 |
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Exactly what it sounds like: terrestrial vampyromorphs, terrestrial nautiluses, terrestrial cuttlefish, terrestrial cirrate octopuses, terrestrial sepiolids, terrestrial bottletail squids, & terrestrial pygmy squids. I started this topic because I noticed that the only cephalopod groups to get any respect in the "terrestrial cephalopods" circle are Teuthid squids & incirrate octopuses. |
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| Pando | May 3 2010, 09:54 PM Post #2 |
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I posted a topic just like this in General Spec called "land cephalopods", except it had all the cephalopods... I once made a fantasy world of all land cephalopods. In it was a tree dwelling vampire squid that the tips of the tentacles past the webbing turned into suctions and it caught its prey by jumping and stopped its fall with a gas bag, and the other one was a cuttlefish that all but 2 of its tentacles turned into a single foot and its 2 remaining tentacles became sharp tipped. But that's probably all just fantasy. Oh yeah, and there was a hard shelled monkey-like cuttlefish that could retract in its shell and its 9th and 10th tentacles were to the side and had retractable sticky sides to catch insects, and it would get the insects with its other tentacles like the tongue of the cryptile. Its eyes moved to inside its tentacles to be able to see. It was able to retract inside its shell to protect itself against megasquid-like squid with pointy 9th and 10th tentacles. --EDIT-- WOOHOO it's my 1,900th post! Seems like yesterday it was my 100th post... Edited by Pando, May 3 2010, 09:56 PM.
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