This diminutive octopus looks as though it could be a character out of a Pixar movie . With large eye , tiny flap quintuplet and a blob - like body , the devilfish is too adorable . In fact , this glorious mollusc is so adorable , it might just be scientifically named so .
" As someone that ’s describing the mintage you get to break up what the specific name is , " Stephanie Bush , a postdoctoral blighter at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute , toldScience Friday . " One of the thoughts I had was realise itOpisthoteuthis adorabilis — because they ’re really precious . " Stephanie Bush , you are not wrong there . checker out thevideobelow fromScience Fridayto find out more about this adorable octopus .
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Characteristic of this fresh cephalopod mollusk is the webbing between its tentacles . The webbing gives the octopus a balloon - alike bounce , let it to optimally glide through currents while using its fin to see to it its direction .
" These creature are part of the greater sea ecosystem , " Bush sound out . " And so as to have a respectable run sea ecosystem we postulate to understand the ecology and doings of the single species . "
But the possibleOpisthoteuthis adorabilisis not the first to be given an unscientifically strange species name .
In 2011 , a horse tent-fly was namedScaptia beyonceaeafter the singer and actress Beyonce because of its golden booty . The jellyfishPhialella zappaiwas scientifically named after careen Isaac M. Singer Frank Zappa in the scientist ’s sneaky bid to meet the musician . And quite impressively , the dinosaurTianchisaurus nedegoapeferimawas formed from the surnames of the primary stars of the 1993 film " Jurassic Park " – SamNeill , LauraDern , JeffGolblum , RichardAttenborough , BobPeck , MartinFerrero , Ariana Richards , and JosephMazzelo .
These outlandish metal money gens ultimately show that when you ’re a scientist , you do n’t always have to meet by the rules .
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