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#Cephalopod

11 creatures with this trait
View Bigfin Squid profile

Bigfin Squid

Magnapinna sp.
Musical Match ⚰️ Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom
🎸 Earth
Similar: Mastodon, Sunn O))), Electric Wizard

The deepest-dwelling cephalopod on Earth with 6-meter elbow-jointed tentacles hanging in the abyss.

View Blue-Ringed Octopus profile

Blue-Ringed Octopus

Hapalochlaena lunulata
Musical Match 🪩 Dance-Punk & Electroclash
🎸 Ladytron
Similar: LCD Soundsystem, Justice, Parov Stelar

Golf-ball sized tide pool titan flashing iridescent electric blue rings and deadly tetrodotoxin.

View Casper Octopus profile

Casper Octopus

Incirrata sp.
Musical Match 🌸 Dream Pop & Shoegaze
🎸 Grouper
Similar: Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Beach House

The pigment-free abyssal cephalopod that broods its eggs on deep-sea manganese crusts for over four years.

View Chambered Nautilus profile

Chambered Nautilus

Nautilus pompilius
Musical Match 📐 Math Rock & Midwest Emo
🎸 Chon
Similar: American Football, TTNG, Covet

Five-hundred-million-year living fossil, logarithmic golden spiral shell, and siphon jet propulsion.

View Colossal Squid profile

Colossal Squid

Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni
Musical Match ⚰️ Sludge Metal & Abyssal Doom
🎸 Evoken
Similar: Mastodon, Sunn O))), Electric Wizard

Heaviest invertebrate on Earth, swiveling razor arm hooks, dinner-plate glowing eyes, and Antarctic abyss monarch.

View Dumbo Octopus profile

Dumbo Octopus

Grimpoteuthis
Musical Match ❄️ Glacial Ambient & Drone Soundscapes
🎸 Mary Lattimore
Similar: Tim Hecker, Stars of the Lid, William Basinski

Ear-like flapping fins, webbed umbrella arms, and deepest-living octopus on Earth (23,000 feet).

View Flamboyant Cuttlefish profile

Flamboyant Cuttlefish

Metasepia pfefferi
Musical Match 🪩 Dance-Punk & Electroclash
🎸 Justice
Similar: LCD Soundsystem, Parov Stelar, Ladytron

Bottom-walking cephalopod, pulsating hypnotic strobe waves, and toxic flesh warning.

View Giant Pacific Octopus profile

Giant Pacific Octopus

Enteroctopus dofleini
Musical Match ☕ Trip-Hop & Velvet Downtempo
🎸 Radiohead
Similar: Massive Attack, Portishead, Gorillaz

Nine brains, three hearts, blue copper blood, and instant 3D camouflage skin.

View Mimic Octopus profile

Mimic Octopus

Thaumoctopus mimicus
Musical Match 🎷 Jazz-Funk, Soul & Lounge Fusion
🎸 Jamiroquai
Similar: Grover Washington, Jr., Azymuth, Les Baxter

The boneless chromatic shapeshifter that improvises live animal impressions to scare off predators.

View Strawberry Squid profile

Strawberry Squid

Histioteuthis heteropsis
Musical Match 🎭 Art Pop & Baroque Pop
🎸 Animal Collective
Similar: Kate Bush, Björk, Sufjan Stevens

The cock-eyed twilight squid with one giant yellow eye and hundreds of bioluminescent photophores.

View Vampire Squid profile

Vampire Squid

Vampyroteuthis infernalis
Musical Match 🌌 Future Garage & Deep Electronica
🎸 Burial
Similar: Bicep, Stephan Bodzin, Jon Hopkins

Oxygen-depleted abyss survival, glowing bioluminescent photophores, and pineapple posture defense.