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Listed under Pelecypoda, together with Ostrea in Dautzenberg, 1923. [details]
Included in separate family Stiliferidae in several sources [details]
The family includes the largest of all cephalopods. Specimens occasionally are found moribund at the surface of the ... [details]
The argonauts or paper nautiluses (a misnamer, use of which must be discouraged) are very abundant in tropical to ... [details]
This family is easily distinguished by large, anteriorly directed photophores over the surface of the mantle, head ... [details]
The only cephalopod family including species with external true shells. The shells are large, light in weight and ... [details]
The systematics of the Octopodidae is in a thoroughly unsettled state and the group is very much in need of ... [details]
The family is characterized by biserial hooks on the arms (usually replaced by small biserial suckers near the arm ... [details]
The family is characterized by an inverted T-shaped funnel locking cartilage, biserial suckers on the arms, ... [details]
Cuttlebone (shell or sepion) internal, chalky (calcareous), porous, finely laminate. Mantle broad, robust, ... [details]
Texture hard and brittle with much sand and foreign spicule fragments incorporated in surface, and in primary and ... [details]
The family is characterized by a funnel locking-cartilage with a long, narrow longitudinal groove and a short, ... [details]
Distribution: Tropical and temperate oceans. Some enter freshwater. Operculum bearing 3 spines - a main spine with ... [details]
Family Limidae in separate superfamily 'Limacea' in Sheppard 1984 [details]
Needs confirmation - based on genus synonymy [details]
