CuttlefishCuttlefish

The amazing invertebrate By Nicholas Scheper

What is the Cuttlefish?What is the Cuttlefish?

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 What does the Cuttlefish look like?like?

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 How does a Cuttlefish move and what does it eat?and what does it eat?

The cuttlefish swims in the deep ocean.

The cuttlefish is slow-moving, but can squirt ink and change color to protect itself.

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 Defensive and Offensive measures for the Cuttlefish.measures for the Cuttlefish.

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?Where does a Cuttlefish live?

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 What is the Classification of the Cuttlefish?the Cuttlefish?

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Mollusca

Class Cephalopoda

Order Sepioida

Family Seplide

Genus Sepia

Species Apoma

The Behavior and Life Cycle The Behavior and Life Cycle of a Cuttlefishof 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.

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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