Natural history

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Identifier: naturalhistory07ameruoft (find matches)
Title: Natural history
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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- o- 3 s Q W^ 5 -2- srf a oa £ B g w T3-I flUJ c3 — o g H- O :- 116 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL 115, was prepared in the Museum under the direction of Dr. L. W.Williams, and represents the male cut so as to show the peculiar internal anatomy of the animal. It is about twice (linear) natural size. The Squid belongs to the Decapods, a subdivision of the Mollusks, and is closely related to the Octopus. The species represented by the model averages more than a foot in length and is somewhat cigar-shaped. It has a distinct head, furnished with a single pair of eyes which are the most perfect found among invertebrates and closely resemble the vertebrate eye itself, though originating in the embryo in a quite different way. The head is provided with a parrot-like beak, especially adapted for tearing flesh. The beak is set in a circular mouth surrounded by ten flexible arms, or tentacles, eight of which are of equal length and studded with suckers for grasping the ani-mals prey. The remaining two'''

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