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Definition of Sepiidae
1. Noun. True cuttlefishes.
Generic synonyms: Mollusk Family
Group relationships: Decapoda, Order Decapoda
Member holonyms: Genus Sepia, Sepia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sepiidae
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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