As long as we have a picture. Enteroctopus is giant, which implies
large scale and is what we're about.  I just like Enope, because they
are bio-luminescent.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparkling_Enope_Squid  The pictures are
kind of cool too.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Yehuda Sadeh <yeh...@inktank.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sage Weil <s...@inktank.com> wrote:
>> We need a cephalopod name that starts with 'e', and trolling through
>> taxonomies seems like a great thing to crowdsource.  :)  So far I've found
>> a few latin names, but the main problem is that I can't find a single
>> large list of species with the common names listed.  Wikipedia's taxonomy
>> seems the best so far, but it's still a lot of browsing required as
>> cephalopoda is a huge class.
>>
>> The only common name I've found is elbow (elbow squid), but elbow is not a
>> very fun name.
>>
>> Suggestions welcome!
>
> When we voted on the theme, I've expanded the cephalopods category to
> also include generic "marine creatures" for this specific reason. We
> can always choose some non-cephalopod creature if the options don't
> feel right (e.g., Eel).
>
> Yehuda
>
>>
>> elbow (elbow squid)
>>  
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=enteroctopus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pzuNUd37McnjigLfu4D4Dw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1916&bih=1082#tbm=isch&sa=1&q=elbow+squid&oq=elbow+squid&gs_l=img.3..0j0i24.80753.82074.2.82218.11.8.0.3.3.0.72.416.8.8.0...0.0...1c.1.12.img.U2rs4lakA-A&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.46340616,d.cGE&fp=aa2ea750bee51b45&biw=1916&bih=1082
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfin_squid
>>  
>> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/11/081124-giant-squid-magnapinna.html
>>
>> enteroctopus (giant octopus)
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_octopus
>>  http://eol.org/pages/61628/overview
>>  
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=enteroctopus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pzuNUd37McnjigLfu4D4Dw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1916&bih=1082
>>
>> elegent or elegans (sepia elegans, elegent cuttlefish)
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sepia_elegans.jpg
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepia_(genus) (see sepia elegans, elegant 
>> cuttlefish)
>>   it's another cuttlefish, though, so, meh.
>>
>> eledone
>>  http://eol.org/pages/51263/overview
>>  
>> https://www.google.com/search?q=enteroctopus&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pzuNUd37McnjigLfu4D4Dw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1916&bih=1082#tbm=isch&sa=1&q=eledone&oq=eledone&gs_l=img.3..0l3j0i24.15244.15821.0.15909.7.6.0.0.0.0.145.442.5j1.6.0...0.0...1c.1.12.img.VazRyuNNsiQ&bav=on.2,or.r_cp.r_qf.&bvm=bv.46340616,d.cGE&fp=aa2ea750bee51b45&biw=1916&bih=1082
>>
>> euaxoctopus
>>  http://eol.org/pages/49675/overview
>>
>> exannulatus (octopus exannulatus)
>>  http://eol.org/pages/491114/overview
>>
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