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TAB. XLVIII. 
SEPIA octopus. 
Eight-armed Cuttle-fish, 
Class 6. Vermes. Order 2. Mollusca. 
Gen. Char. Body fleshy, receiving the breast in a 
sheath, with a tubular aperture at its base. Arms 
eight, beset with numerous suckers, and in most 
species two pedunculated tentacula. Head short. 
Eyes large. Mouth 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. Seba Mas. v. 3. t. 2 .f. 1, 2, 3. 5. 
This Cuttle-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. Gmelin and Turton only 
speak of such. There are figures of both in Seba. 
