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Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and European squid (Loligo vulgaris) for #CephalopodAwarenessDays! #Cuttlefish have excellent camouflage. They can change their coloring rapidly to match their environment. European #Squid live from sea level to depths of 500 m. They migrate to inshore waters to spawn, where females can lay up to 20,000 eggs. #SciArt from Tintenfische; mit besonderer Berücksichtigung von Sepia und Octopus (1913) by Werner Meyer. Contributed for digitization by Smithsonian Libraries (@silibraries) to #BiodiversityHeritageLibrary. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12668599
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