The 2009 Seamounts cruise blog says they have discovered another two new species of squid. Amazing what still can be found in the wild:
More than 70 species of squid have been identified from the seamounts [six week] cruise samples thus far. Incredibly, this represents in excess of 20% of the global squid biodiversity!
“For ten days now 21 scientists armed with microscopes have been working through intimidating rows of jars containing fishes, squids, zooplankton and other interesting creatures,” says Alex Rogers, Principal Scientist and Marine Biologist at the Zoological Society of London. “Many specimens look similar to each other and we have to use elaborate morphological features such as muscle orientation and gut length to differentiate between them.”