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1 Cuvier remarks, that this division of the bloodless fish by Aristotle into the mollusca, testacea, and crustacea, has been followed by naturalists almost down to the present day.
2 The Sæpia loligo of Linneus; the calmar of the French, or ink-fish.
3 The Sæpia officinalis of Linnæus; the seche of the French; our cuttlefish.
4 The Sepia octopodia of Linnæus, or eight-footed cuttle-fish.
5 Cuvier remarks, that this account of the arms or feelers of the sæpia and loligo is very exact.
6 "Quibus venantur." Hardouin suggests that the proper reading would be "quibus natant"—"by means of which they swim;" for Aristotle says, in the corresponding passage, "with the fins that surround the body they swim."
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