Well technically, blanket ockies are argonauts, or at least argonautOIDS. Superfamily Argonautoidea = blanket ockies (Tremoctopodidae) + Football ockies (Ocythoidae) + 7-armed ockie (Alloposidae) + true argonauts/paper nauts' (Argonautidae).
The other two argonautoid families are monotypic and just as freaky:
Seven-arm Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus, formerly Alloposus spp.) is the biggest scientifically verified octopus (c 4m long, 75kg). Male keeps his "penis" coiled up in a sac behind his right eye giving the appearance of 7 tentacles.
Tuberculate Octopus (Ocythoe tuberculata) is the only cephalopod possessing a true buoyancy-control gas chamber and the only known ovoviviparous cephalopod. Instead of raiding siphonophores for armaments like the blankies, this species turns colonial salps into fortresses.
Evolutionarily, the argonautoids have really gone wild.
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Superfamily Argonautoidea = blanket ockies (Tremoctopodidae) + Football ockies (Ocythoidae) + 7-armed ockie (Alloposidae) + true argonauts/paper nauts' (Argonautidae).
The other two argonautoid families are monotypic and just as freaky:
Seven-arm Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus, formerly Alloposus spp.) is the biggest scientifically verified octopus (c 4m long, 75kg). Male keeps his "penis" coiled up in a sac behind his right eye giving the appearance of 7 tentacles.
Tuberculate Octopus (Ocythoe tuberculata) is the only cephalopod possessing a true buoyancy-control gas chamber and the only known ovoviviparous cephalopod. Instead of raiding siphonophores for armaments like the blankies, this species turns colonial salps into fortresses.
Evolutionarily, the argonautoids have really gone wild.
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For the aliens I mean...
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