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    Cephalopods, usually specifically octopuses, squids, nautiluses and cuttlefishes, are most commonly represented in popular culture in the Western world...
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    Invasion" set is centered on a giant squid. Kraken Kraken in popular culture Cephalopods in popular culture List of squid-faced humanoids Evans, Karen; Morrice...
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    Splatoon (category Cephalopods in popular culture)
    Set in the far future on a post-apocalyptic Earth inhabited by anthropomorphic marine animals, the series centers around terrestrial cephalopods known...
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    wolves of the sea, because they hunt in groups like wolf packs. Killer whales hunt varied prey including fish, cephalopods, mammals, sea birds and sea turtles...
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    References to the fictional kraken are found in film, literature, television, and other popular culture forms. In various comics, particularly DC and Marvel...
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  • this is not certain. Giant squid in popular culture Kraken in popular culture Cephalopods in popular culture Cephalopod size The Sea Raiders title listing...
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    The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (category Zoophilia in culture)
    relations between a woman and an octopus. Some early netsuke carvings show cephalopods fondling nude women. Hokusai's contemporary Yanagawa Shigenobu created...
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    portion of these attacks are questionable or unverifiable tabloid stories. Cephalopods are members of the class Cephalopoda, which includes all squid, octopuses...
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    Vampire squid (category Cephalopods described in 1903)
    common to most cephalopods are poorly developed in the vampire squid. The animal is, therefore, incapable of changing its skin colour in the dramatic fashion...
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    Nautiluses are much closer to the first cephalopods that appeared about 500 million years ago than the early modern cephalopods that appeared maybe 100 million...
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    Giant squid (category Cephalopods described in 1860)
    arms and tentacles are arranged in a circle surrounding the animal's single, parrot-like beak, as in other cephalopods.[citation needed] Giant squid have...
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    few species of cephalopods have shells (either internal or external) that are sometimes found washed up on beaches. Some cephalopods such as Sepia, the...
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    Belemnitida (category Prehistoric cephalopod orders)
    likely thicker, stronger, and more convex than in other cephalopods. The mantle cavity of cephalopods serves to contain the gills, gonads, and other organs;...
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  • The Kraken Wakes (category Kraken in popular culture)
    originally published by Michael Joseph in the United Kingdom in 1953, and first published in the United States in the same year by Ballantine Books under...
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    number of species, including salmon and carp. Invertebrates including cephalopods like squid and octopus; crustaceans such as prawns, crabs, and lobsters;...
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  • Kraken (novel) (category Kraken in popular culture)
    British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and in the US by Del Rey Books. Handed in at the same time as The City & the City, it...
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  • Lusca (category Mythological cephalopods)
    Andros, an island in the Bahamas. Clipping of Mollusca, "(Mol)lusca"; a phylum containing octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and other cephalopods. Due to how the...
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    rings. There are no chromatophores above the ring, which is unusual for cephalopods as they typically use chromatophores to cover or spectrally modify iridescence...
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    Akkorokamui (category Mythological cephalopods)
    which supposedly lurks in Uchiura Bay in Hokkaido. It is said that its enormous body can reach sizes of up to 120 metres (390 feet) in length. Its name can...
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    Giant cuttlefish (category Cephalopods described in 1849)
    November 2011. Alison King The Colourful World of Cephalopods - Cephalopod body patterning II. The Cephalopod Page. Hanlon, R.T. 2008. Australian Giant Cuttlefish...
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    East Pacific red octopus (category Cephalopods described in 1953)
    McDaniel, Neil (2009). Super Suckers: The giant Pacific octopus and other cephalopods of the Pacific coast. Harbour Publishing. ISBN 9781550174663. Onthank...
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    in paintings. In popular culture, the snail is known for its stereotypical slowness, while the octopus and giant squid have featured in literature since...
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    Kraken (category Mythological cephalopods)
    monster of enormous size, per its etymology something akin to a cephalopod, said to appear in the sea between Norway and Iceland. It is believed that the...
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    Opisthoteuthis californiana (category Cephalopods described in 1949)
    maximum size is 20 cm (7.9 in) mantle length. They have eight arms (like any other octopus), but these affixed together in an umbrella shape. However...
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    Taningia danae (category Cephalopods described in 1931)
    Roper, C.F.E. & P. Jereb 2010. Family Octopoteuthidae. In: P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper (eds.) Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue...
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  • Taningia fimbria (category Cephalopods described in 2019)
    cephalopods) epidermal tubercles (a unique feature in the genus and family) modifications to arm hooks and arm morphology Giant squid Giant squid in popular...
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    Geoduck (category Washington (state) culture)
    phallic shape. It is very popular in China, where it is considered a delicacy, mostly eaten cooked in a fondue-style Chinese hot pot. In Korean cuisine, geoducks...
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    "wolves of the sea", because they hunt in groups like wolf packs. Orcas hunt varied prey including fish, cephalopods, mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles...
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    life which she created is still used today. As a leading researcher on cephalopods, she proved that the Argonauta argo produces its own shells, as opposed...
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  • Pearl and Marina (category Japanese popular culture)
    Pearl and Marina are members of two species of sapient terrestrial cephalopods: Pearl, an Inkling, is 21 at the time of Splatoon 2, while Marina, an...
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