- foot.
Fishers sometimes call
cephalopods "inkfish",
referring to
their common ability to
squirt ink. The
study of
cephalopods is a
branch of
malacology known...
-
navigational abilities, and
predatory techniques in
cephalopods is
widely acknowledged.
Cephalopods have been
compared to
hypothetical intelligent extraterrestrials...
- All
extant cephalopods have a two-part beak, or rostrum,
situated in the
buccal m**** and
surrounded by the
muscular head appendages. The
dorsal (upper)...
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expression due to
independent variants of Pax6
arising in both
cephalopods and vertebrates.
Cephalopods contain five
variants of Pax6 in
their genomes which independently...
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gladius (pl.: gladii), or pen, is a hard
internal bodypart found in many
cephalopods of the
superorder Decapodiformes (particularly squids) and in a single...
- pair). The
males of most
cephalopods develop a
specialised arm for
sperm delivery, the hectocotylus. Anatomically,
cephalopod limbs function using a crosshatch...
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Cephalopod fins,
sometimes known as wings, are
paired flap-like
locomotory appendages. They are
found in ten-limbed
cephalopods (including squid, bobtail...
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Genus of
cephalopods...
- Westermann, G.E.G. (1973).
Strength of
concave septa and
depth limits of
fossil cephalopods.
Lethaia 6(4): 383–403. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1973.tb01205.x...
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Cephalopod ink is a dark-coloured or
luminous ink
released into
water by most
species of
cephalopod,
usually as an
escape mechanism. All
cephalopods, with...
