class Cephalopoda

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class Cephalopoda - octopuses; squids; cuttlefish; pearly nautilus

Cephalopoda

Mollusca, phylum Mollusca - gastropods; bivalves; cephalopods; chitons

cephalopod, cephalopod mollusk - marine mollusk characterized by well-developed head and eyes and sucker-bearing tentacles

family Nautilidae, Nautilidae - spiral-shelled cephalopods

Dibranchia, Dibranchiata, subclass Dibranchia, subclass Dibranchiata - comprising all living cephalopods except the family Nautilidae: the orders Octopoda (octopuses) and Decapoda (squids and cuttlefish)

class - (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

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Mangold K, Clarke MR and Roper CFE (1998) Class Cephalopoda. In Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis.

The giant cuttlefish Sepia apama Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae)--an intertidal record of a molluscan marvel

mimus to captivity conditions was evident during the experimental period, as has been reported previously for this and other genera of the class Cephalopoda (Nabhitabhata 1995, Cortez et al.

Effects of alimentary regime on feeding, growth, and proximal composition of Octopus mimus Gould, 1852 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae)

Phylum Mollusca, class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea.

Evaluation of the capture efficiency and size selectivity of four pot types in the prospective fishery for North Pacific giant octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini)