Hello fish friends! Today is the vampire squid a real cutie! Named after its distinct color and appearance, it is the only living cephalopod that is a scavenger. It also has the largest eyes proportional to its body in the animal kingdom. It lives 2-3000feet deep so unfortunately seeing these beauties in person isnt easy. They also cant change colors like other cephalopods or shoot out ink, because both would be pointless in the darkness of that depth. Instead, when threatened, they shoot out a bioluminescent mucus. As cool as this is, I dont want to be sneezed on by a squid.
They are so cute and majestic as heck! Bioluminescence is one of the coolest things animals can do, whether it’s their mucus or their body that glows. And I like how their fins looks like big ears.
vampire squid!!!
they totally are fish, just like whales, elephants, bread, silverfish, and other molusks
But cephalopods aren’t fish. They are as fish as dolphins. Or me on the coast during vacation.
Are you wrong? No. But fish isnt even a real taxonomic grouping. And since its my post/series I get to play by my own rules. And my rule is if its cute and/or I want to talk about it, im gonna
Doesn’t English have a different word for all animals from the sea? Like Frutti di Mare in Italian. Sea animals or something. Because fish is a classification, and you just can’t redefine meaning of words on the fly. And my ocd won’t let me sleep tonight until this important issue is resolved
Im not going to change the fun alliteration of the title to something like “primarily aquatic animals,” just because theyre not technically fish. I think with the amount of times i said cephalopod its pretty onvious it is, in fact, a cephalopod. Sorry, not sorry
Edit: I also think its completely reasonable to talk about cephalopods when talking about the general idea of fish. I mean, jellfish and shellfish both have fish in their names and neither classification is a fish. Again, if we really wanna be sticklers, fish arent even a thing. But this is tangential, because, again, Im just talking about what I want to
I just checked you posts, and I see until today you always posted about actual fishes on these fish fridays, so this is the first mistake of your life, I can forgive you.
what do you mean dolphins aren’t fish
They are mammals, they are artiodactyla, even-toed ungulates. They are closer to us than fishes. Their ancestors with our ancestors left the oceans, and the ancestors of dolphins and all sea mammals went back to the water several million years later.
Mammals changed back to aquatic lifestyle multiple times separately. First the ungulates (dolphins, whales, narwhals, etc, closest non aquatic relative are hippos), and manatees (their closest relatives are elephants on the shore). Later sea lions and walruses. The most recent are sea otters and polar bears.
Wikipedia has a nice article on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_mammal
Dolphins are fish, they are Sarcopterygii, lobe finned fish. All lobe finned fish are more closely related to each other than they are to ray finned fish like trout.
No, wtfEdit: misunderstood kerrigan
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin
Dolphins are descendants of land-dwelling mammals of the artiodactyl order (even-toed ungulates). They are related to the Indohyus, an extinct chevrotain-like ungulate, from which they split approximately 48 million years ago.
The primitive cetaceans, or archaeocetes, first took to the sea approximately 49 million years ago and became fully aquatic by 5–10 million years later.
Can’t evolve out of a clade. Dolphins, and all tetrapods, are lobe finned fish, and bony fish, and jawed fish, and chordates respectively. There is no clade that includes trout and sharks that does not include dolphins, nor is there a clade that includes trout and coelacanths or lungfish that does not include dolphins.
It’s literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on Dolphins.
A dolphin is an aquatic mammal in the clade Odontoceti (toothed whale).
They’re mammals not fish.
Mammals are tetrapods yes, which fall under lobe finned fish.
they are mammals. mammals are tetrapods, which come from fish. thus, dolphins art fish
