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Euprymna scolopes, the Glossary

Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island.^[1]

67 relations: Aliivibrio fischeri, Amino acid, Anisomysis, Antimicrobial, Artemia salina, Bacteria, Bioluminescence, Bobtail squid, Brine shrimp, Canadian Journal of Microbiology, Catalysis, Cell wall, Cilium, Counter-illumination, DACH1, Developmental biology, Embryo, Epithelium, Eyes absent homolog 1, Family (biology), Flagellum, Gene, Gene expression, Halocaridina rubra, Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian monk seal, Hydrogen peroxide, Ink sac, International Space Station, IUCN Red List, Journal of Bacteriology, Journal of Molecular Evolution, Luciferase, Mantle (mollusc), Marine Biology (journal), Metabolism, Midway Atoll, Model organism, Mosquitofish, Motility, Mucus, Mysida, National Museum of Natural History, Octopus, Octopus cyanea, Oxygen, Pacific Ocean, Palaemon debilis, Palaemon pacificus, Peptidoglycan, ... Expand index (17 more) »
Molluscs described in 1913
Taxa named by Samuel Stillman Berry

Aliivibrio fischeri

Aliivibrio fischeri (formerly Vibrio fischeri) is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium found globally in marine environments. Euprymna scolopes and Aliivibrio fischeri are Symbiosis.

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.

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Anisomysis

Anisomysis is a genus of mysids, first described in 1910 by Hans Jacob Hansen.

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Antimicrobial

An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent).

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Artemia salina

Artemia salina is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to Triops and cladocerans than to true shrimp.

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Bacteria

Bacteria (bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

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Bioluminescence

Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms.

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Bobtail squid

Bobtail squid (order Sepiolida) are a group of cephalopods closely related to cuttlefish.

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Brine shrimp

Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp or sea monkeys.

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Canadian Journal of Microbiology

The Canadian Journal of Microbiology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of microbiology.

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Catalysis

Catalysis is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst.

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Cell wall

A cell wall is a structural layer that surrounds some cell types, found immediately outside the cell membrane.

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Cilium

The cilium (cilia;; in anatomy, cilium is an eyelash) is a membrane-bound organelle found on most types of eukaryotic cell.

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Counter-illumination

Counter-illumination is a method of active camouflage seen in marine animals such as firefly squid and midshipman fish, and in military prototypes, producing light to match their backgrounds in both brightness and wavelength.

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DACH1

Dachshund homolog 1, also known as DACH1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the DACH1 gene.

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Developmental biology

Developmental biology is the study of the process by which animals and plants grow and develop.

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Embryo

An embryo is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism.

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Epithelium

Epithelium or epithelial tissue is a thin, continuous, protective layer of compactly packed cells with little extracellular matrix.

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Eyes absent homolog 1

Eyes absent homolog 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EYA1 gene.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Flagellum

A flagellum (flagella) (Latin for 'whip' or 'scourge') is a hairlike appendage that protrudes from certain plant and animal sperm cells, from fungal spores (zoospores), and from a wide range of microorganisms to provide motility.

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Gene

In biology, the word gene has two meanings.

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Gene expression

Gene expression is the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene product that enables it to produce end products, proteins or non-coding RNA, and ultimately affect a phenotype.

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Halocaridina rubra

Halocaridina rubra, the Hawaiian red shrimp or volcano shrimp is a small red shrimp of the family Atyidae, with the common Hawaiian name ōpaeula (meaning "red shrimp"). Euprymna scolopes and Halocaridina rubra are endemic fauna of Hawaii.

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Hawaiian Islands

The Hawaiian Islands (Hawaiian: Mokupuni Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major volcanic islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiʻi in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.

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Hawaiian monk seal

The Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus schauinslandi) is an endangered species of earless seal in the family Phocidae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. Euprymna scolopes and Hawaiian monk seal are endemic fauna of Hawaii.

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Hydrogen peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is a chemical compound with the formula.

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Ink sac

An ink sac is an anatomical feature that is found in many cephalopod mollusks used to produce the defensive cephalopod ink.

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International Space Station

The International Space Station (ISS) is a large space station assembled and maintained in low Earth orbit by a collaboration of five space agencies and their contractors: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada).

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IUCN Red List

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is an inventory of the global conservation status and extinction risk of biological species.

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Journal of Bacteriology

The Journal of Bacteriology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1916.

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Journal of Molecular Evolution

The Journal of Molecular Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers molecular evolution.

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Luciferase

Luciferase is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein.

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Mantle (mollusc)

The mantle (also known by the Latin word pallium meaning mantle, robe or cloak, adjective pallial) is a significant part of the anatomy of molluscs: it is the dorsal body wall which covers the visceral mass and usually protrudes in the form of flaps well beyond the visceral mass itself.

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Marine Biology (journal)

Marine Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on all aspects of marine biology.

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Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.

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Midway Atoll

Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; translation; label) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean.

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Model organism

A model organism (often shortened to model) is a non-human species that is extensively studied to understand particular biological phenomena, with the expectation that discoveries made in the model organism will provide insight into the workings of other organisms.

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Mosquitofish

The western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) is a North American freshwater poeciliid fish, also known commonly, if ambiguously, as simply mosquitofish or by its generic name, Gambusia, or by the common name gambezi.

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Motility

Motility is the ability of an organism to move independently, using metabolic energy.

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Mucus

Mucus is a slippery aqueous secretion produced by, and covering, mucous membranes.

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Mysida

Mysida is an order of small, shrimp-like crustaceans in the malacostracan superorder Peracarida.

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National Museum of Natural History

The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Octopus

An octopus (octopuses or octopodes) is a soft-bodied, eight-limbed mollusc of the order Octopoda. The order consists of some 300 species and is grouped within the class Cephalopoda with squids, cuttlefish, and nautiloids.

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Octopus cyanea

Octopus cyanea, also known as the big blue octopus or day octopus, is an octopus in the family Octopodidae. Euprymna scolopes and octopus cyanea are molluscs of Hawaii.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element; it has symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Palaemon debilis

Palaemon debilis is a species of shrimp of the family Palaemonidae.

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Palaemon pacificus

Palaemon pacificus is a species of shrimp of the family Palaemonidae.

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Peptidoglycan

Peptidoglycan or murein is a unique large macromolecule, a polysaccharide, consisting of sugars and amino acids that forms a mesh-like layer (sacculus) that surrounds the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane.

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Peroxidase

Peroxidases or peroxide reductases (EC number) are a large group of enzymes which play a role in various biological processes.

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Prawn

Prawn is a common name for small aquatic crustaceans with an exoskeleton and ten legs (members of the order of decapods), some of which are edible.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (often abbreviated PNAS or PNAS USA) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scientific journal.

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Reflectin

Reflectins are a family of intrinsically disordered proteins evolved by a certain number of cephalopods including Euprymna scolopes and Doryteuthis opalescens to produce iridescent camouflage and signaling. Euprymna scolopes and Reflectin are bobtail squid.

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S. Stillman Berry

Samuel Stillman Berry (March 16, 1887 – April 9, 1984) was an American marine zoologist specialized in cephalopods.

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Seawater

Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean.

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Sepiolidae

Sepiolidae is a family of bobtail squid encompassing 15 genera in three or four subfamilies. Euprymna scolopes and Sepiolidae are bobtail squid.

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Shrimp

A shrimp (shrimp (US) or shrimps (UK) is a crustacean (a form of shellfish) with an elongated body and a primarily swimming mode of locomotion – typically belonging to the Caridea or Dendrobranchiata of the order Decapoda, although some crustaceans outside of this order are also referred to as "shrimp".

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Simple eye in invertebrates

A simple eye or ocellus (sometimes called a pigment pit) is a form of eye or an optical arrangement which has a single lens without the sort of elaborate retina that occurs in most vertebrates.

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SpaceX CRS-22

SpaceX CRS-22, also known as SpX-22, was a Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) that launched at 17:29:15 UTC on 3 June 2021.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Sugar

Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Tardigrade

Tardigrades, known colloquially as water bears or moss piglets, are a phylum of eight-legged segmented micro-animals.

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Vesicle (biology and chemistry)

In cell biology, a vesicle is a structure within or outside a cell, consisting of liquid or cytoplasm enclosed by a lipid bilayer.

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Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euprymna_scolopes

Also known as Hawaiian Bobtail Squid.

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Euprymna scolopes, the Glossary

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Molluscs described in 1913

Taxa named by Samuel Stillman Berry

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