Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes)

08/16/2017 01:08 PM EDT

Hawaiian bobtail squid (<em>Euprymna scolopes</em>)

The Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) is a night-active predator on the shallow reef flats of the Hawaiian archipelago. To hunt at night, this small animal uses light produced by a population of the bacterial symbiont Vibrio fischeri to camouflage against the moonlight ...

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