California Market Squid Egg Clusters On The Beach At Seaside, OR, USA Stock Photo

California Market Squid Egg Clusters On The Beach At Seaside, OR, USA. Doryteuthis Loligo opalescens. `Market squid are members of the mollusk family known as cephalopods, which means foot-on-head.``They have eight arms and two tentacles that extend from the ends of their bodies where their mouths are located.``They have a mixed, iridescent coloration of milky white and purple, but their coloring can change in response to environmental conditions.` `Newly hatched eggs are called “paralarvae” and resemble miniature adults.` NOAA