cuttlefish

Squid and cuttlefish are among the ocean's most fascinating animals, known for their color-changing skin and jet-like movement.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 1, 2026

Octopuses and cuttlefish are famous for their ability to blend seamlessly into their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026

A government review led by Prof Birch in 2021 assessed 300 scientific studies on the sentience of decapods and Cephalopods, which include octopus, squid, and cuttlefish.

From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2024

In 1778, British explorer Capt. James Cook was welcomed when he anchored off the Hawaiian islands by locals eager to trade cuttlefish, breadfruit and pigs for nails and iron tools.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2023

Another kind is that of the mollusca, such as the cuttlefish; and lastly, the family of insects.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., and his colleagues recently discovered that cuttlefishes actively express opsin genes throughout their skin, particularly in their fins and underbellies.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2012

Presumably the octopus and cuttlefish employ the same method of self-defense; they are not the only ones: Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes.

From Time Magazine Archive

In some mollusks, as the cuttlefishes, it is internal, or concealed by the mantle.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

The higher forms, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopi, swim rapidly by ejecting a jet of water from the tubular siphon beneath the head.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section C by Project Gutenberg

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cupÐshaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah