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Ink-fish

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Ink-fish
Temporal range: Early Devonian – Recent[1]
Caribbean reef squid ("Sepioteuthis sepioidea")
Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea)
Scientific classification e
Kinrick: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Cless: Cephalopoda
Subcless: Coleoidea
Cohort: Neocoleoidea
Superorder: Decapodiformes
Leach, 1817[2]
Orders[3]
Synonyms

Ink-fish is ocean cephalopods of the order Teuthida, which comprises around 300 species. Like other cephalopods, ink-fish has a distinct heid, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and airms. Ink-fish, like cuttlefish, has echt airms and two tentacles arranged in pairs. (The anely kent exception is the big fin ink-fish group, which has ten gey lang, thin airms of equal length.)

References

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  1. see Boletzkyida, Belemnite
  2. Young, R. E., Vecchione, M., Mangold, K. M. (2008). Decapodiformes Leach, 1817. Squids, cuttlefishes and their relatives. in The Tree of Life Web Project
  3. MolluscaBase (2019). Decapodiformes. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325342 on 2019-02-11