Common octopus, Octopus vulgaris, elegant cuttlefish, Sepia elegans, shooting ink, and common squid, Loligo vulgaris. Drawn after nature by Olivier Fredol at Concarneau aquarium. Poulpe. Seche lancant son noir. Calmar. Chromolithograph by A. Mesnel from Alfred Fredol’s Le Monde de la Mer, the World of the Sea, edited by Olivier Fredol, Librairie Hachette et. Cie., Paris, 1881. Alfred Fredol was the pseudonym of French zoologist and botanist Alfred Moquin-Tandon, 1804-1863.

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