Caption
Piglet squid (Helicocranchia sp.) portrait. These squids start their life near the surface as paralarvae and gradually descend to lower mesopelagic depths as they approach near-adulthood. Observed during RV Sonne, Cruise SO285, in the South Atlantic, Benguela upwelling region off the coast of South Africa and Namibia. Captive.
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