What Is Gone Is Not Hawaiian Bobtail Squid on Hawaii Five-0 2010

Summary: Cheese, meat and pineapple pizzas affect mammal and tree populations in Hawaii Five-0 2010's What Is Gone Is Gone, but not Hawaiian bobtail squid totals.

Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) swims in the water column; the species, native to the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island, camouflages itself via light produced by its luminous bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri: (2014) PLoS Biology Issue Image / Vol. 12(2) February 2014: Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai, CC BY 4.0, via PLOS Biology

Hawaiian bobtail squid are absent from cheese, pepperoni, pineapple and sausage pizzas that are assembled on Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode What Is Gone Is Gone Jan. 12, 2018.

Director Roderick Davis and writer Sean O'Reilly broach the 'ōlelo a'o ("advice") O ka mea ua hala ua hala ia in the eighth season's 13th episode. The series' 121st episode overall closets Hawaii Five-0 Task Force Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) in a car with armed, suspected wife-killer Brad Woodward (Devon Sawa). Lou draws up devastating deaths during his police career in Chicago, Illinois, and discerns a debilitated husband downtrodden by a depressed wife and a deluded father-in-law.

Brad and Lou never eat two J.J. (Dolan's) pizzas, from which the latter excludes calamari tentacle and tube sides deep-fried with cocktail sauce and lemon wedges.

Calamari (from Latin calamarius, "squid [or tentacled creature]" from Greek κάλαμος, kálamos, "ink pen, reed") figures more frequently as octopus than as squid within Hawaiian cuisine.

The garbled grouping somewhat guards, off Midway Island and the Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian bobtail squid, whose two- to five-month life cycles generate laboratory, not fishery, interest. One night-time, preferably rain-filled, 30- to 50-minute mating session heads physically and sexually mature female and male Hawaiian bobtail squid respectively into death and pre-death egg-laying. Female Hawaiian bobtail squid incline toward morning, sand-covered, shallow-water, 30-minute clutch-laying of 50 to 200 eggs, 0.08 inches (2 millimeters) in diameter, on coral ridge undersides.

Hawaiian bobtail squid life cycles juggle 18- to 26-day pre-hatching periods as in-shell embryos and two- to three-day post-hatching periods as yolk-feeding, 0.00018-ounce (0.005-gram) planktonic hatchlings.

Two- to three-day-old Hawaiian bobtail squid know partial use of light organs, whose interiors keep bioluminescent bacteria (Aliivibrio fischeri) within 10 to 12 hours of hatching.

The little adult-like, 10-day-old Sepiolidae (from Greek σηπία, sēpía, "cuttlefish") family juvenile members locate in 0.79- to 1.18-inch- (2- to 3-centimeter-) deep coastal, shallow, warm waters. The Cephalopoda (foot-encircled head, from Greek κεφαλή, kephalē, "head" and πούς, poús, "foot") class juvenile member manifests 60-day-old sexual maturity, 130-day-old subadulthood and 180-day-old physical maturity. The Mollusca (thin-shelled, from Latin mollis, "soft") phylum member, named scientifically Euprymna scolopes, needs light organs, fully operational as 130-day-olds, for anti-predator, camouflaged, counter-illuminated, moonlit-like undersides.

Mud-, sand- and sea grass-occurring Hawaiian bobtail squid, observed scientifically in 1913 by Samuel Stillman Berry (March 16, 1887-April 9, 1984), organize dusk-to-dawn, sit-and-wait, two-tentacled predation.

Hawaiian bobtail squid preferentially prey upon brine (Artemia salina), grass (Palaemon debilis), Hawaiian red volcano (Halocaridina rubra), opossum (Mysis diluviana) and Pacific grass (Palaemon pacificus) shrimp.

Big blue day octopuses (Octopus cyanea), prawns (Leander debilis) and western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) queue up as palatable prey for Hawaiian bobtail squid in bioluminescence-related laboratories. Hawaiian bobtail squid, non-competitive and solitary except during mating, require predator-proof blue-black ink pools, counter-illuminated under-sides and, to remain grass-, mud- and sand-roughened, sticky surface-wide secretions. They sometimes survive barracuda (Sphyraena), Hawaiian monk seals (Monachus schauinslandi) and lizardfish (Synodus) between 25 and 18 degrees North latitude, 170 and 154 degrees West longitude.

Probably no four-tentacled, large-eyed, paddle-finned, pollution-stressed, 0.79- to 1.38-inch- (20- to 35-millimeter-) long, 0.094- to 0.11-ounce (2.67- to 3.0-gram) Hawaiian bobtail squid tempt golf-loving environmentalist Lou.

Hawaii Five-0 Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) defuses a suicide threat from falsely suspected wife-killer Brad Woodward (Devon Sawa) and signals progress with a request for pizzas (but no mention of calamari as a topping) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 8, episode 13, O Ka Mea Ua Hala Ua Hala Ia (What Is Gone Is Gone): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.13 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Jan. 12, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Hawaiian bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) swims in the water column; the species, native to the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island, camouflages itself via light produced by its luminous bacterial symbiont, Vibrio fischeri: (2014) PLoS Biology Issue Image / Vol. 12(2) February 2014. PLoS Biol 12(2): ev12.i02: Chris Frazee and Margaret McFall-Ngai, CC BY 4.0, via PLOS Biology @ https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/image.pbio.v12.i02

Hawaii Five-0 Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) defuses a suicide threat from falsely suspected wife-killer Brad Woodward (Devon Sawa) and signals progress with a request for pizzas (but no mention of calamari as a topping) in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 8, episode 13, O Ka Mea Ua Hala Ua Hala Ia (What Is Gone Is Gone): CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 8.13 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Jan. 12, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2017/12/hawaii-five-0-episode-813-o-ka-mea-ua.html

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