No deep-sea squid species called vampire squid. Scientists have long wanted to know how the animals that live in these dark waters to reproduce. It turned out very different from the squid generally.If the squid generally lay one time, squid vampire named latin Vampyroteuthis infernalis this fact can lay eggs up to more than 100 times. That the results of a study published in the journal Current Biology.
This difference is expected as a result of low-energy lifestyle in the waters in an almost unattainable light.
According to Henk-Jan Hoving from the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, possibility vampire squid do not have enough energy to spawn all their eggs at once.
The transparent bodied animals living in the deep ocean and did not live long in the shelter, so it is difficult for scientists to record behavior.
When the vampire squid Hoving study collection at the Museum of Natural History Santa Barbara, he found something unusual. Squid generally spawn once a lifetime. But the female vampire squid apparently had oocytes survive to produce more eggs.
Furthermore, Hoving rate it has to do with the age of the vampire squid he calls longer than usual squid. This is because their habitat make this squid has a phase of life is slower, because it does not require a high metabolism, and do not need high-calorie foods.
But little is known of the animal this one. As in the animal kingdom itself, there are still many species that have not been revealed.
Since 2006, according to the Christian Science Monitor notes, there are 18 thousand new species discovered. It is estimated that there are 10 million other species unknown outside.
Not BloodsuckerVampire squid gets its name from the shape of the 'terrible'. The color is dark, membrane like a cape in the tentacles, and his eyes were red, makes it called "Vampire Squid from Hell".
But this is not the squid bloodsucking animals such as vampires.
In taxonomy, it belongs to a different order of squid shallow waters, which is of the order Vampyromorphida. This squid including phylogenetic relic because it is the only species left of the order.
In 1903, the vampire squid was originally classified as an octopus by German scientists. But then he put in order Vampyromorphida, which has several species but extinct.
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