Portal:Marine life/Selected Picture/December, 2006

Two cuttlefish interacting at the Georgia Aquarium.

Photo credit: Diliff

Cuttlefish are marine animals of the order Sepiida belonging to the Cephalopoda class (which also include squids, octopuses and nautilus). Although the name suggests it, cuttlefish are not fish, but molluscs.

Cuttlefish have an internal shell, large eyes, and eight arms and two tentacles furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which they secure their prey.