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chambered nautilus, nautilus, pearly nautilus
cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions
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dibranch, dibranchiate, dibranchiate mollusk
cephalopods having two gills
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octopod
a cephalopod with eight arms but lacking an internal shell
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decapod
cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones
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devilfish, octopus
bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles
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Argonaut, Argonauta argo, nautilus, paper nautilus
cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells
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squid
widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
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cuttle, cuttlefish
ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell
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Spirula peronii, spirula
a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral
