'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Size:L: 75 x 50cm In January 1830

In January 1830

by Charles Rossi

Plate 13 from Anatomy of the Human Body by William Cheselden FRS (London

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'Sepia officianalia' [Common cuttlefish] Size:L: 75 x 50cm In January 1830Marine zoological study of the Common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis). The cephalopod is presented with the two long tentacles extended, therefore a dead specimen. With supporting detail drawings A F. Plate 1 in the section 'Seiche (Sepia)' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny