MRI used for non-invasive description of new octopus species
Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: MRI used for non-invasive description of new octopus speciesIn the North Pacific Ocean, the Emperor Seamounts are named for Japanese emperors.A new species of dumbo octopus ('dumbo' because its paired fins remind one of the ears of Disney's flying elephant; National Geographic video of dumbo octopus: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl4pqu5FTaI&ab_channel= NationalGeographic) found there is proposed to have the English name 'Emperor dumbo' .In the language of the German scientists who describe this new octopus, the name would be 'Kaiserdumbo' .On 5 July 2016, the German deep ocean research vessel SONNE was pulling rocks and sediments, animals and plants from one of the Emperor seamounts, from a depth of more than 4000 meters.On that day, one of the steel nets included a pink octopus, 29 cm in length [1].It happened that the zoologist on the research team, Dr. Alexander Ziegler from University of Bonn, had a special interest in digital three-dimensional (3D) imaging of invertebrates.He recognized the dead animal as a dumbo octopus, likely an unknown species.The octopus was placed in a tub of cold seawater; external features were photographed and measured,
Source: The ASEAN Journal of Radiology
Authors: Linda Brown, Arthur Brown
Institutions: Mahidol University, Ramathibodi Hospital
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3197736943