CEPnALOrODA. 651 



Order DIBR^V^XHIATA. 



"With two gills ; an ink-bladder. Shell commonly internal and 



rudimeutarj. 



Tribe Decapoda. 



Family Spinelidtc. Shell chiefly internal, nacreous ; whorls sepa- 

 rate, chambered ; siphon near the concavity of the shell- 

 curve. 



Genus Spirula. 



Family Belemnitidce. Shell internal, consisting of a "phragmocone " 

 with a marginal siphon, lodged in a "guard," sometimes 

 produced into a horny plate or " pen." 

 Genera Belemnites, Belemnifella, Belemnoteuthis, Conofeuthis. 



Family Sepiadce. Shell internal, consisting of a flattened "phrag- 

 mocone," lodged in an open " guard," prolonged behind into 

 a " mucro." 



Genera Sepia, Beloptera, Belemnosis. 



Family Teiithida;. Shell internal, simple, wholly or in great part 

 horny, called " gladius " or " pen." 



Genera Coccoteuthis, Enoploteuthis, Ont/chofeufhis, Histioteufhis, 

 Cheiroteuthis, LoUgo, LoUgopsis, Cranchia, Eossia, 

 Sepiola, Sepioteiithis, Leptoteutlns, Geoteuthis, Belo- 

 teuthis. 



Tribe Octopoda. 



Family Pinnata. Shell rudimental, internal, uncalcified : a pair of 

 pallial fins. 

 Genera Sciadephorus, Pinnoctopiis. 



Family Nuda. Shell rudimental, internal, uncalcified. No pallial 

 fins. 

 Genera Octopus, Tremoctopus, Eledone. 



Family Testacea. Shell calcareous, simple, extei'nal, peculiar to the 

 female. No pallial fins. 

 Genus Argonauta. 



