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Cuttlefish
The amazing invertebrate
By Nicholas Scheper
What is the Cuttlefish?
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The cuttlefish is a mollusk closely related to
the octopus and squid.
 They have eight arms and two
tentacles.They can also squirt ink like its
relatives.
 The cuttlefish also has bilateral and radial
symmetry.
What does the Cuttlefish look
like?
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The cuttlefish is 1-5 in. long
and weigh about 5 kilograms.
The cuttlefish can change their
skin to be any color. They can
also change their body texture
to be any texture.
One important body part is the
cuttlebone because the
cuttlebone controls the
cuttlefish’s buoyancy.
How does a Cuttlefish move
and what does it eat?
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The cuttlefish swims
in the deep ocean.
 The cuttlefish is slowmoving, but can squirt
ink and change color
to protect itself.
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The cuttlefish is a carnivore
and eats mollusks, crabs,
fish, worms, shrimp, octopi,
and cuttlefish.
 It gets its food by two
tentacles that shoot out and
grab the prey and pull it into
a beak-like mouth.
 The cuttlefish is somewhere
in the middle of the food
web.
Defensive and Offensive
measures for the Cuttlefish.
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The cuttlefish can
change color to
confuse and even
hypnotize its predators
and prey.
 The enemies of the
cuttlefish are the
dolphin, shark, fish,
seal, other cuttlefish,
and humans.
Where does a Cuttlefish live?
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The cuttlefish lives in all of the oceans and
also in the Red Sea and in the English
Channel.
 The cuttlefish lives in the deep parts of the
ocean.
What is the Classification of
the Cuttlefish?
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Cephalopoda
Order
Sepioida
Family
Seplide
Genus
Sepia
Species
Apoma
The Behavior and Life Cycle
of a Cuttlefish

The cuttlefish is more
of a solitary animal
and doesn’t live in
herds.
 The cuttlefish is
nocturnal and does not
hibernate or migrate.
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The life cycle of a cuttlefish
is: 1. They are in an egg. 2.
They hatch and are babies. 3.
At one or two they become
an adult and start to
reproduce. 4. They die
around the ages of 3-5.
 They lay eggs.
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