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from The Century Dictionary.

  • A family of acetabuliferous or dibranchiate cephalopods, represented only by the genus Cranchia, having a short, rounded body with two posterior tins, a small head with large eyes, the corneæ of which are perforated, and two rows of suckers on the arms and eight rows on the long tentacles.

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