Excerpt from American Marine Conchology, or Descriptions of the Shells of the Atlantic Coast of the United States, From Maine to Florida
Order octopoda. - Body naked; head separate, with eight fleshy arms, furnished with sessile cups or suckers, without any horny rings; eyes fixed in the skin. Siphuncle entire; gills two. No internal or external shell.
Order decapoda.-body naked; head separate, with ten fleshy arms, two of them longer, furnished with pedunculated cups or suckers, with horny rings; eyes free in their orbits. Siphuncle entire; gills two. Having an internal shell or pen.
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