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upon ; for its habits are not very active, and it will 

 remain in the same position for hours, occasionally 

 coiling and uncoiling one or another of its eight long 

 sucker-clad feet or tentacles. A stock of live shore- 

 Fig. 159- 



Fig. 1 60. 



Common Sepia (Sepia ojficinalis). 



Bone of Common Sepia 

 (Sepia officinalis). 



crabs (Carcimis m&nas) is usually kept in a separate 

 tank for the purpose of feeding cuttles. 



The common sepia (Sepia officinalis) is also kept 

 under artificial marine conditions, but it is not so 



