The creature, which has only been observed two dozen times, was spotted during a deep-sea exploration run by the NOAA.
The bigfin squid was filmed on November 9. The dive took place off the west Florida shelf, with the team observing a plant on a rocky shelf at a depth of over 7,700 feet. As the camera pans back, the team spot a squid in the distance and follow it.
A still from the footage of the bigfin squid taken as part of the NOAA Ocean Exploration Windows to the Deep 2021 dives.Michael Vecchione, a zoologist with the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service National Systematics Lab and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, toldthat one of the team members is currently trying to estimate the size of the bigfin using paired lasers. He said it was an adult.
There have been just a dozen published observations of bigfin squid, of the genus Magnapinna. Vecchione said there have been other, unpublished sightings, but this only amounts to maybe another dozen. Capturing a bigfin squid on film is very rare.The squid was spotted as the team observed life on some rocks on the ocean floor off the southeast cost of the U.S.The squid was spotted as the team observed life on some rocks on the ocean floor off the southeast cost of the U.S.
The Windows to the Deep expedition aims to map and collect information about the poorly understood areas of the Blake Plateau region of the North Atlantic Ocean. This includes the deep waters off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
"We encountered it on the very first dive and were able to successfully collect an individual," he said."It is in the family Rhopalonematidae and I am very much looking forward to continuing to study the specimen to better understand how it fits into the overall jellyfish tree of life."
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