cuttlefish

"This year, they were all really skittish... hiding under rocks. Because there's so few cuttlefish hanging out at the moment, they don't have strength in numbers."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

This was particularly worrying as cuttlefish, along with other cephalopods like octopus and squid, are particularly vulnerable to the toxic algae.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

"While it appears likely the algal bloom has impacted cuttlefish numbers, researchers are working to determine whether this contributed to the reduced population or was just one of the potential impacts."

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

An octopus is an eight-footed or armed cuttlefish.

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Elmer W. Cavins

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

There are wonderfully complete fossil series, e.g. among cuttlefishes, in which we can almost see evolution in process.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson

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 Noah Webster

The cuttlefishes are molluscs and may be regarded as the highest of the backboneless or Invertebrate animals.

From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson