Cephalopods
Flamboyant Cuttlefish
Metasepia pfefferi · Cephalopod mollusk — family Sepiidae; a dwarf cuttlefish with a reduced internal cuttlebone
A flamboyant cuttlefish crossing a black-sand flat looks like a wind-up toy in ceremonial dress — a fist-sized animal ambling on two arm tips and skin flaps because its reduced internal cuttlebone barely floats it, pulsing waves of maroon, yellow, and white down its body as it goes. The pageant reads as warning coloration: laboratory work has reported significant toxins in its muscle, a rarity among cuttlefish, and the animal behaves like something with nothing to prove, hunting tiny shrimp and fish in open daylight with a deliberate tongue-flick strike of its feeding tentacles. At rest it fades to mud brown and simply disappears against the silt. Females glue eggs under coconut shells and rubble, and hatchlings emerge as perfect miniatures already flashing the family colors. It is a muck signature — ask the guides which slope has been producing.
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"상주종"은 해당 다이빙 포인트에서 대부분의 다이빙 시 만날 수 있다는 의미이며, "계절종"은 표기된 월에 안정적으로 출현한다는 뜻입니다. 그 외의 생물은 보너스로 여기세요 — 계획의 근거로 삼지 마세요.
| 목적지 | 신뢰도 | 월 | 참고 사항 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lembeh StraitIndonesia | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| AnilaoPhilippines | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| Banda Sea & AmbonIndonesia | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| Dumaguete, Dauin & Apo IslandPhilippines | Occasional | 연중 가능 | |
| Milne BayPapua New Guinea | Occasional | 연중 가능 |
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이해하기
서식지: Open sand, silt, and mud flats of sheltered bays and muck slopes, usually walking rather than swimming.
범위: Indo-Malayan region and northern Australia — Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and New Guinea.
행동 특성: Ambles across the bottom on two arm tips and skin flaps, pulsing waves of maroon, yellow, and white when hunting or alarmed; fades to mud brown at rest and vanishes.
먹이: Small shrimp and fishes taken with a slow-motion stalk and a lightning strike of the feeding tentacles.
크기: 보통 0.06 m; 최대 기록 수심 0.08 m (mantle length).
이 생물 주변에서의 행동 요령
Stay low and behind its line of travel, keep strobes reasonable, and never lift shells or coconut halves — females glue eggs beneath exactly that kind of cover.
보존
Formally Data Deficient; a bottom-bound lifestyle on developable coastal seabeds is its main exposure.
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