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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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eight-armed, MOLLUSCA.
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and the Decapoda, or ten-armed Cuttle-fish. The Octopod tribe consists of the two families Testacea and Nuda ;to the former belongs the genus Argonauia, with (perhaps) the fossil genus BeUeroplion ; to the latter the genusOctopus, represented in the preceding figure (2) as creeping onthe shore with its mouth downwards. The Decapod tribe, whichincludes the greater proportion of the existing Cephalopoda, is di-vided into four families ;—the Teuthidm or Calamaries, including thegenera Loligo, Sepioteuthis, OnychoteuthU, Sepiolat Cranchia, and Loli-gopsis (Fig. 3) ; the Sepiadar, or common Cuttle-fish, comprised underthe single genus Sepia ; the SpirulidcE, consisting of the single genusSpiruhx^ which is a Decapodous Cephalopod, with an internal spiralchambered shell, furnished with a siphon ; and the Belemmiida;, agroup known only by fossil remains, but determined from these tohave been Decapodous Cephalopods, possessing conical chamberedshells of which a description has been given in
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