calamaries

Poulps and the Sepias this fin is unbroken and continuous, as is also the case in the larger calamaries known as Teuthi.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

Compared with one another, the teuthis, or calamary, is long-shaped, and the sepia flat-shaped; and of the calamaries the so-called teuthus is much bigger than the teuthis; for teuthi have been found as much as five ells long.

The History of Animals 2002

Now cuttle-fish and calamaries swim about closely intertwined, with mouths and tentacles facing one another and fitting closely together, and swim thus in opposite directions; and they fit their so-called nostrils into one another, and the one sex swims backwards and the other frontwards during the operation.

The History of Animals 2002

In the sepias and calamaries or squids the eggs appear to be two, because the uterus is divided and appears double, but that of the poulps appears to be single.

On the Generation of Animals 2002

He describes the character of the cuttle-bone in Sepia, and of the horny pen which takes its place in the various calamaries, and notes the lack of any similar structure in Octopus.

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He points out the two long arms of Sepia and of the calamaries, and their absence in the octopus; and he tells us, what was only confirmed of late, that with these two long arms the creature clings to the rock and sways about like a ship at anchor.

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For in these latter the cornea is at first perforated, while different degrees of perforation of the same part are presented by different adult cuttle-fishes -- large in the calamaries, smaller in the octopods, and reduced to a minute foramen in the true cuttle-fish sepia.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Curiously enough, English sailors still call the nearest surviving relatives of the belemnites, the squids or calamaries of the

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

I do not say that there were not fossil forms quite as big as the gigantic calamaries of our own time -- on the contrary, I believe there were; but if we go by the record alone we must confess that, in the matter of invertebrates at least, the balance of size is all in favour of our own period.

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