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Gilbert L. Voss
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Miami, Florida, 1961–88. Author of Cephalopods of the Philippine Islands.

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A blue-ringed octopus with bright blue rings on its beige body crawls over a rocky, coral-strewn seabed.
Cephalopod, any member of the class Cephalopoda of the phylum Mollusca, a small group of highly advanced and organized, exclusively marine animals. The octopus, squid, cuttlefish, and chambered nautilus are familiar representatives. The extinct forms outnumber the living, the class having attained…
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