A troop of cuttlefish swimming in the sea is a beautiful sight.
Cuttlefishes, by discharging sepia from their ink-bags, are able to throw dust in the eyes of their enemies.
It served as both nest and nourishment for myriads of crustaceans and mollusks, for crabs and cuttlefish.
Strolling along the sands one day, he observed a stranded cuttlefish.
There are seventy sorts of cuttlefish and octopuses in Japanese waters.
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The belemnite is an extinct animal related to thecuttlefish.
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Cephalopods (octopus, squids, andcuttlefish), despite a very advanced evolution of their visual system, were not able to evolve a large brain.
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Other exports included comparatively smaller volumes of dried shellfish,cuttlefish, and salted sardines.
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The plasmalemma specialization of retinal cells in thecuttlefishas revealed by freeze-fracture method.
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To progress this model, we have developed a tissue slice preparation obtained from the retinas of very youngcuttlefish.
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The simple kinetics of the photocurrents seen incuttlefishphotoreceptors may be a real species difference, or the more complex kinetics have not yet developed at this early stage.
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Cephalopod eyes, such as those from squid andcuttlefish, have been very useful models for the investigation of the underlying retinal biochemical processes.
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They do not paint a very optimistic picture for anchovy,cuttlefish, demersal fish, black hake and sardinella.
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It is like the ink which thecuttlefishputs out to conceal its retreat.
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It is normally acuttlefish, but this time it is a squid.
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However, the underwater wildlife there includes an amazing collection of 24 species of sponges, as well ascuttlefish, tompot blennies, burrowing anemones, slipper limpets and hermit crabs.
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They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopuses, andcuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
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It is also known as the northern flamboyantcuttlefish.
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They are an extinct group of ammonoid, which are shelled cephalopods related to squids, belemnites, octopodes, andcuttlefish, and more distantly to the nautiloids.
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His only true companion was hiscuttlefish, though lost for a short period it returned to its true resting place, strategically placed over his loins.
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