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Spirula

noun
1.
A small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral.  Synonym: Spirula peronii.



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"Spirula" Quotes from Famous Books



... is the living 'Waldheimia' less embryonic, or more specialized; than the paleozoic 'Spirifer'; or the existing 'Rhynchonellae', 'Craniae', 'Discinae', 'Lingulae', than the Silurian species of the same genera? In what sense can 'Loligo' or 'Spirula' be said to be more specialized, or less embryonic, than 'Belemnites'; or the modern species of Lamellibranch and Gasteropod genera, than the Silurian species ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley


Words linked to "Spirula" :   decapod, Spirula peronii, genus Spirula


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