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Cuttlefish spine

Description:

A white structure with smooth surface on one side and gill like slits on the other. Also appeared to have a tail on one end. The barnacles were sticking to this one which was about the length of my hand. There were many others smaller in size, without barnacles.

Habitat:

Arabian sea beach.



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9 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 10 months ago

Uff!

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 10 months ago

Sepia and cuttlefish fish are the same thing as far as I know. You had nailed it. :)

bayucca
bayucca 10 months ago

At least I was not completely out of the row with my skeleton (spine) and squid/sepia, since the cuttlefishes (which I never heard about) belongs also to Cephalopoda ;-)...

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 10 months ago

Thanks bayucca and ArgyBee. It's a cuttlefish spine indeed.

Argy Bee
Argy Bee 10 months ago

This is a cuttlefish spine

bayucca
bayucca 10 months ago

Looks like a skeleton of a squid or sepia.

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 10 months ago

I am talking about the structure they are sticking to.

pmbagga
pmbagga 10 months ago

Goose Barnacle
Lepas Anatifera

pmbagga
pmbagga 10 months ago


My kind of shots.....nice capture!

India

Lat: 17.86, Long: 73.03

Spotted on Aug 8, 2012
Submitted on Aug 8, 2012

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