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TAB. XLVIII. 



SEPIA octopus. 

 Eight-armed Cuttlc-Jish. 



Class 6. Vermes. Order 2. Mollusca. 



Gen. Char. Bochj fleshy, receiving the breast in a 

 sheath, with a tubular aperture at its base. Arws 

 eight, beset with numerous suckers, and in most 

 species two pedunculated tentacula. Head short. 

 Eyes large. Moutli resembling a Parrot's beak. 



Turt. 



Spec. Char. Body without tailor appendage. Pe- 

 dunculated tentacula, or longer arms, none. 

 Arms beset with a double row of tentacula. 



Syn. Seha Mas. v. 3. t. 2./. 1,2, 3. 5. 



This Cutde-fish, commonly so called, was sent me from 

 Dover by my friend Mr. Richard Phillips. I received it 

 alive. Whether it is a variety of the Sepia octopodia of 

 Pennant, I cannot positively determine. It is certainly 

 sufficiently distinct from one which I had from my friend 

 G. Montague, Esq., which agrees with Pennant's, having 

 a single row of suckers upon each arm; for, besides the 

 double row of suckers which ours has, it is much more 

 coloured, and different in shape, the body being longer. 

 There is no mention made of Sepia octopodia with double 

 rows of suckers by Pennant. Gmclin and Turton only 

 speak of such. There are figures of both in Seba. 



