Definition of Sepiidae

1. Noun. True cuttlefishes.

Exact synonyms: Family Sepiidae
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Decapoda, Order Decapoda
Member holonyms: Genus Sepia, Sepia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepiidae

Seongnam
Seoul
Seoulite
Seoulites
Sep
Sep.
Sep 11
Sepedi
Sephacryl
Sephadex
Sephardi
Sephardic
Sephardic Jew
Sephardim
Sepharose
Sepiidae (current term)
Sepoy Mutiny
Seppo
Seppos
Sept.
Sept. 11
Septata
September
September 11
September 17
September 29
September eleventh
September elm
September equinox
Septemberer

Literary usage of Sepiidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1906)
"Sepiidae, d'Orbigny. Body wide and flattened ; tins narrow and extending the whole length of the body (Fig. 2986"). Shell calcareous and laminated, ..."

2. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"Sepiidae. Body flattened, broad ; fins narrow, elongated, shell internal calcareous. Sepia L., cuttle-fish. ... Loliginidae, Sepiidae constitute the group ..."

3. The Canadian Record of Science by Natural History Society of Montreal (1897)
"So far as the writer has been able to ascertain, there is no known genus of Sepiidae, fossil or recent, to which these fossils can be satisfactorily ..."

4. Aquarium notes. The octopus; or, The 'devil-fish' of fiction and of fact by Henry Lee (1875)
"... shaped like a quill pen; from which and its ink it derives its names of " calamary," " pen-and-ink fish," and "sea-clerk." The Sepiidae are the ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1903)
"... and referred it to the Sepiidae, but suggested that the forms described by Kner were crustaceans related to ..."

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