Vampire Squid

Scientific Name:

Physical Appearances:

• Maximum length is 30cm or 1ft
• Females are larger than males
• Are black to pale red
• 8 arms that are connected by webbing
• Each arms is rowed with ciri (spine like projections)
• Large blue or red eyes

Physical Appearances:

• covered in poorly developed photophores (light producing organism)

How does a vampire squid move? Nekton, it swims!

Vampire squids live in the Pacific,Atlantic, and Atlantic ocean.

Biotic Organisms in Ecosystem:

• algae
• angler fish
• arrow worm
• crabs
• segmented worms
• swallower fish
• tripod fish
• tubeworms
• viperfish
• etc.

Abiotic Factors in Ecosystem:

• water
• temperature
• water pressure
• light level
• depth
• tides
• minerals
• etc.

Physical Traits and How it Impacts

• Large fin like ears-used for movement
• bioluminescence- attract prey
• low metabolic rate- how your body uses energy

Behavioral Traits and How it Impacts

• Pulls its capped arms over the body- looking larger to stay safe from predators
• Quickly moving fins in different angles - escaping predators by swimming in different angles

Human Impact:

• Over fishing can impact organisms all over the ocean, if we fish too much zooplankton then things that eat them ( like vampire squid) will start decreasing

Prey

• copepods
• prawns
• fecal pellets
• remains of zooplankton

Predators

• deep diving fish
• pinnipeds
• some (not many) whales

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