Ink-fish

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.)

Ink-fish
Temporal range: Early Devonian – Recent[1]
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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]
  • Myopsida
  • Oegopsida d'Orbigny, 1845
  • Sepiida Zittel, 1895
  • Spirulida Stolley, 1919
  • Teuthida Naef, 1916 (nomen dubium)
  • Decapodiformes incertae sedis
    • Bathyteuthoidea Vecchione, Young, & Sweeney, 2004
    • Idiosepiidae Appellöf, 1898
Synonyms
  • Decembrachiata Winckworth, 1932

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