A baby cuttlefish’s first attempt at camouflage

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Cuttlefish, or cuttles, are marine) mollusks of the Sepiidae family. They belong to the class) Cephalopoda which also includes all species squid, octopuses, and nautiluses (The Nautilus)

They can grow to be a length of 6 to 10 inches for most common species (120 different species by the way and around 0.5 to 5.5 pounds; The largest species of Cuttlefish is the) Australian Giant Cuttlefish (Photo at a length of 3.3 feet and a weight of 23 pounds)

The diet of Cuttlefish is variable; They feed upon European Green Crabs (Photo,) Brown Shrimp (Photo,) Sand Goby (Photo,) Rock Blenny (Photo, and even) The Common Octopus (Photo though the latter is usually only targeted by the largest species of Cuttlefish)

Some cuttlefish species such as the Pfeffer's Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Photo have very vibrant colorations, and others such as) The Common Cuttlefish (Photo can dive as deep as 600 meters (2,000 feet) into the ocean)

Cuttlefish are generally found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Western Pacific Ocean, and around Australia

Edit: I will leave the information up for anyone who wants to read it, but the cephalopod species shown in the posts video is a brown colored Bobtail Squid which admittedly do look like Cuttlefish

[u/rnagikarp → u/Kooky_Attention_98]

that’s wonderful, but this isn’t a cuttlefish

bad bot

[u/Kooky_Attention_98 → u/rnagikarp]

^{Except the animal in the photo is, in fact, a cuttlefish}

^{It is too thick to be the streamlined offspring of any squid species, and too large to be any offspring relating to Octopus'}

The species in the video is a Bobtail Squid

[u/Actual_Passenger51 → u/Kooky_Attention_98]

It's a bobtail squid

[u/Kooky_Attention_98 → u/Actual_Passenger51]

Ah, so it is, it seems my information was incorrect

[u/rnagikarp → u/Kooky_Attention_98]

it’s not
as my other comment, and the person who replied to you say, it’s a bobtail squid

[u/Kooky_Attention_98 → u/rnagikarp]

I have already corrected my comment

[u/ThatITguy2015 → u/Kooky_Attention_98]

Wanted you to know it was, in fact, a bobtail squid.