Dictyorhabdus priscus Walcott, a fragment of uncertain nature, thought to be a chordal sheath of a Chimaera, but probably part of a Cephalopod (Dean).
Dean thinks this more likely to be part of the axis of a cephalopod shell.
Similar rhythmically contractile areas are found on the foot of the embryo Pulmonate Limax and on the yolk-sac (distended foot-surface) of the Cephalopod Loligo.
The cachalot swims through the water with its lower jaw hanging, the cephalopod grasps the jaw, and the whale then shuts his capacious mouth upon it.
The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
On the one hand, a single small straight-shelled Cephalopod lingers for a time with the ancestral form; on the other hand, a new and formidable competitor appears among the coiled-shell Cephalopods.
Again, take the case of the introduction of a giant Cephalopod or fish amongst a population of Molluscs and Crustacea.
Forerunners of the great ammonite family of cephalopod mollusks now appear.
Defn: A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.
Defn: The tube which runs through the partitions of chambered cephalopod shells.
Defn: Any fossil cephalopodshell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell.
Next year, however, in his classical paper on Cephalopod development[277] Kölliker came to the opinion that they were really nuclei.
The organs, too, of the Cephalopod are differently constructed.
Moreover, Aristotle did not so much compare a Cephalopod with a doubled-up Vertebrate as contrast Cephalopods (and also Testacea) with all other animals.
The most remarkable feature of the Cephalopod yolk-sack is the fact that it lies on the opposite side of the alimentary tract to the yolk cells, which form a rudimentary yolk-sack in such Gasteropoda as Nassa and Fusus.
Various views have been put forward with reference to the Cephalopod foot.
This prominence is filled with yolk, and represents the rudiment of the external yolk-sack of the typical Cephalopod embryo.
The Cephalopod eye is formed, as first shewn by Lankester, as a pit in the epiblast round which a fold arises (fig.
It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family.
Dear Professor Pelseneer, I am very glad to hear from you that the homology of the cephalopod arms with the gasteropod foot is now generally admitted.
So when he found that to the lay mind a squid and a cephalopod were one and the same, save in size, he read the long article from beginning to end, doing the best he could with the strange, long words.
Billy Topsail did not know what a cephalopod was; but he did know a squid when he saw its picture, for Ruddy Cove is a fishing harbor, and he had caught many a thousand for bait.
But no sooner had the cephalopod come within reach than the tables were turned.
For a moment the boy was staggered, and he never knew whether he had grabbed the cephalopod or whether it had grasped him, all he knew was that he was lying on the ground with six of the eight arms of the octopus around him.
Mr. Beale states that this Cephalopod must have measured across its expanded arms about four feet, while its body was not bigger than a large hand clenched.
Gigantic Cephalopodstranded on the coast of Jutland, 461.
In 1853 a gigantic cephalopod was stranded on the coast of Jutland.
The siphon, which traverses all the chambers, receives and protects the ligament, by the aid of which the Cephalopodis retained in the last chamber of the shell.
Sheer chance had placed us in the presence of this squid, and I didn't want to lose this opportunity to meticulously study such a cephalopod specimen.
People not only claimed these devilfish could drag ships under, but a certain Olaus Magnus tells of a cephalopod a mile long that looked more like an island than an animal.
Billy Topsail did not know what a cephalopod was; but he did know a squid when he saw its picture, for Ruddy Cove is a fishing harbour, and he had caught many a thousand for bait.
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