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Excerpt from American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, From Maine to Florida
Order octopoda. - Body naked; head separate, with eight fleshy arms, furnished with sessile cups or suckers, without any horny rings; eyes fixed in the skin. Siphuncle entire; gills two. No internal or external shell. Order decapoda.-body naked; head separate, with ten fleshy arms, two of them longer, furnished with pedunculated cups or suckers, with horny rings; eyes free in their orbits. Siphuncle entire; gills two. Having an internal shell or pen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
