spirula


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a small tropical cephalopod of the genus Spirula having prominent eyes and short arms and a many-chambered shell coiled in a flat spiral

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(1981) found an exogenous rather than endogenous origin for the component sterols of Spirula spirula and Illex illecebrosus.
Changes in tissue biochemical composition and energy reserves associated with sexual maturation in the ommastrephid squids Illex coindetii and Todaropsis eblanae
spirula (Olfers in Rudolphi, 1819) Schmidt, 1972 (=Prosthenorchis s.) de los primates Cebuellapygmaea y Saimiri sciureus de Iquitos, en el departamento de Loreto (Dunn, 1963; Tantalean et al., 2005).
Presencia de Oncicola sp. (Acanthocephala) en Atelocynus microtis (Canidae) de la Reserva de Biosfera de Manu, Madre de Dios, Peru
Spirula 345:152-155 (In Dutch with English abstract).
Growth and development of veined rapa whelk Rapana venosa veligers
This has been done for individuals and shells of Nautilus (Raup and Takahashi, 1966; Hewitt and Westermann, 1987; Ward, 1987), Spirula (Denton, 1971), and Sepia (Birchall and Thomas, 1983; Ward and Boletzky, 1984).
Cuttlebone Morphology Limits Habitat Depth in Eleven Species of Sepia (Cephalopoda: Sepiidae)
The light organs of Sepiola atlantica and Spirula spirula (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): bacterial and intrinsic systems in the order Sepiodea.
Bacterial symbionts colonize the accessory nidamental gland of the squid Loligo opalescens via horizontal transmission
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