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WORK=WORLD REGISTER OF MARINE SPECIES, }}Cuttlefish, or cuttles, are marine molluscs of the order Sepiida. They belong to the class Cephalopoda which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish have a unique internal shell, the cuttlebone, which is used for control of buoyancy.Cuttlefish have large, W-shaped pupils, eight arms, and two tentacles furnished with (:wikt:denticulate|denticulated) suckers, with which they secure their prey. They generally range in size from {{convert|15|to|25|cm|in|0|abbr=on}}, with the largest species, the giant cuttlefish (Sepia apama), reaching {{convert|50|cm|in|abbr=on}} in mantle length and over {{convert|10.5|kg|lb|abbr=on}} in mass.Reid, A., P. Jereb, & C. F. E. Roper (2005). "Family Sepiidae". In: P. Jereb & C. F. E. Roper, eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes. No. 4, Vol. 1. Rome, FAO. pp. 57–152.Cuttlefish eat small molluscs, crabs, shrimp, fish, octopus, worms, and other cuttlefish. Their predators include dolphins, larger fish (including sharks), seals, seabirds, and other cuttlefish. The typical life expectancy of a cuttlefish is about 1–2 years. Studies are said to indicate cuttlefish to be among the most intelligent invertebrates.NOVA, 2007. Cuttlefish: Kings of Camouflage. (television program) NOVA, PBS, April 3, 2007. Cuttlefish also have one of the largest brain-to-body size ratios of all invertebrates.The Greco-Roman world valued the cuttlefish as a source of the unique brown pigment the creature releases from its siphon when it is alarmed. The word for it in both Greek and Latin, sepia, now refers to the reddish-brown color sepia in English.{{toclimit|3}} Taxonomy and etymology {{Wikispecies|Sepiida}}(File:Sepia officinalis1.jpg|thumb|Illustration of Sepia officinalis)(File:Cuttlefish.ogv|thumb|Video of a cuttlefish in its natural habitat)"Cuttle" in "cuttlefish", sometimes called "cuttles",WEB, The Cephalopoda, University of California Museum of Paleontology,weblink 2017-06-27, is derived from the Old English name for the species, cudele. The word may be cognate with the Old Norse koddi (cushion) and the Middle Low German Kudel (rag).BOOK, Stevenson, Angus, Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, {{google books, y, ToyCmgEACAAJ, 3804, |date=20 September 2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-920687-2 |pages=3804}} Over 120 species of cuttlefish are currently recognised, grouped into six families divided between two suborders. One suborder and three families are extinct.{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}} Order Sepiida: cuttlefish Suborder †Vasseuriina Family †Vasseuriidae Family †Belosepiellidae Suborder Sepiina Family †Belosaepiidae Family Sepiadariidae Family Sepiidae Family Sepiolidae File:Sepia officinalis (aquarium).jpg|The common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) is the best-known cuttlefish speciesFile:Hooded Cuttlefish.jpg|Hooded cuttlefish (Sepia prashadi)File:Seba molluscas.jpg|Engravings by the Dutch zoologist Albertus Seba, 1665–1736{{Clear}} Fossil record The earliest fossils of cuttlefish are from the end of the Cretaceous period,JOURNAL, Whiteaves, J.F., 1897, On some remains of a Sepia-like cuttle-fish from the Cretaceous rocks of the South Saskatchewan, The Canadian Record of Science, 7, 459–462, JOURNAL, 10.1016/S0016-7878(78)80013-3, The preservation of the shells of Sepia in the middle Miocene of Malta, H. M., 1978, Pedley, Hewitt, R., Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 89, 3, 227–237, 1978PrGA...89..227H, represented by Ceratisepia from the Late Maastrichtian Maastricht Formation of the Netherlands.WEB, Maastrichtian Ceratisepia and Mesozoic cuttlebone homeomorphs - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica,weblink 2020-12-17, www.app.pan.pl, Although the Jurassic Trachyteuthis was historically considered possibly related to cuttlefish,JOURNAL, Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 2010, 84, 4, 523–32, Glyphiteuthis rhinophora n. sp., a trachyteuthidid (Coleoidea, Cephalopoda) from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Mexico, 10.1007/s12542-010-0066-9, Fuchs, Dirk, Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang, Ifrim, Christina, Giersch, Samuel, Padilla Gutierrez, José Manuel, Frey, Eberhard, 2010PalZ...84..523F, 129754736, later studies considered to be more closely related to octopus and vampire squid.JOURNAL, Fuchs, Dirk, Iba, Yasuhiro, Tischlinger, Helmut, Keupp, Helmut, Klug, Christian, October 2016, The locomotion system of Mesozoic Coleoidea (Cephalopoda) and its phylogenetic significance,weblink Lethaia, en, 49, 4, 433–454, 10.1111/let.12155, 2016Letha..49..433F, Range and habitat (File:Sepia mestus (front view).jpg|thumb|S. mestus swimming (Australia))The family Sepiidae, which contains all cuttlefish, inhabits tropical and temperate ocean waters. They are mostly shallow-water animals, although they are known to go to depths of about {{cvt|600|m|abbr=on}}.Lu, C. C. and Roper, C. F. E. (1991). "Aspects of the biology of Sepia cultrata from southeastern Australia", p. 192 in: La Seiche, The Cuttlefish. Boucaud-Camou, E. (Ed). Caen, France; Centre de Publications de l'Université de Caen. They have an unusual biogeographic pattern; they are present along the coasts of East and South Asia, Western Europe, and the Mediterranean, as well as all coasts of Africa and Australia, but are totally absent from the Americas. By the time the family evolved, ostensibly in the Old World, the North Atlantic possibly had become too cold and deep for these warm-water species to cross.JOURNAL, 10.2989/025776198784126287, Young, R. E., Vecchione, M., Donovan, D., 1998, The evolution of coleoid cephalopods and their present biodiversity and ecology, South African Journal of Marine Science, 20, 393–420, The common cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), is found in the Mediterranean, North and Baltic seas, although populations may occur as far south as South Africa. They are found in sublittoral depths, between the low tide line and the edge of the continental shelf, to about {{cvt|180|m|-2|abbr=on}}.Common Cuttlefishes, Sepia officinalis. marinebio.org The cuttlefish is listed under the Red List category of "least concern" by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. This means that while some over-exploitation of the marine animal has occurred in some regions due to large-scale commercial fishing, their wide geographic range prevents them from being too threatened. Ocean acidification, however, caused largely by higher levels of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere, is cited as a potential threat.IUCN, Barratt, I., Allcock, L., 2012, Sepia officinalis, 2012, e.T162664A939991, 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T162664A939991.en, 11 November 2021, Some studies suggest that ocean acidification does not impair normal embryonic development, survival rates or body size. Anatomy and physiology Cuttlebone {{multiple image | align=right | direction=horizontal | width =140 | image1 =Cuttlefish-Cuttlebone2.jpg | alt1 = | caption1 = | image2 =Cuttlefish-Cuttlebone1.jpg | alt2 = | caption2 = | footer =Top and bottom view of a cuttlebone, the buoyancy organ and internal shell of a cuttlefish | footer_align =center }}Unlike other cephalopods, cuttlefish possess a unique internal structure called the cuttlebone, a highly modified internal shell, which is porous and is made of aragonite. Except for spirula, they are the only coleoid cephalopods with a shell with a phragmocone divided into chambers separated by septa.JOURNAL,weblink The shell structure and chamber production cycle of the cephalopod Spirula (Coleoidea, Decabrachia), Antonio G., Checa, Christian, Grenier, Erika, Griesshaber, Wolfgang W., Schmahl, Julyan H. E., Cartwright, Carmen, Salas, Morgane, Oudot, October 12, 2022, Marine Biology, 169, 10, 132, Springer Link, 10.1007/s00227-022-04120-0, 10481/77740, free, The pores provide it with buoyancy, which the cuttlefish regulates by changing the gas-to-liquid ratio in the chambered cuttlebone via the ventral siphuncle.JOURNAL, A., Mutterlose, J., Stable isotope records from Sepia officinalis—a key to understanding the ecology of belemnites?, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 247, 3–4, 212, 2006, Rexfort, 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.04.025, 2006E&PSL.247..212R, Each species' cuttlebone has a distinct shape, size, and pattern of ridges or texture. The cuttlebone is unique to cuttlefish, and is one of the features that distinguish them from their squid relatives.BOOK, Staaf, Danna, Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods, {{google books, y, udIwDwAAQBAJ, 112, |year=2017 |publisher=University Press of New England |isbn=978-1-5126-0128-2|pages=112–}} Visual system (File:Cuttlefish eye.jpg|thumb|The characteristic W-shape of the cuttlefish eye)File:Sepia eyelid shape.theora.ogv|thumb|Pupil expansion in Sepia officinalisSepia officinalisCuttlefish, like other cephalopods, have sophisticated eyes. The organogenesis and the final structure of the cephalopod eye fundamentally differ from those of vertebrates such as humans.WEB, Muller, Matthew,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20031121103918weblink">weblink dead, 2003-11-21, Development of the Eye in Vertebrates and Cephalopods and Its Implications for Retinal Structure, The Cephalopod Eye, Davidson College Biology Department, 2007-04-06, Superficial similarities between cephalopod and vertebrate eyes are thought to be examples of convergent evolution. The cuttlefish pupil is a smoothly curving W-shape.SCHAEFFEL > FIRST1=F.

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ACCESS-DATE=2020-01-09, The cuttlefish's eyes are thought to be fully developed before birth, and they start observing their surroundings while still in the egg. In consequence, they may prefer to hunt the prey they saw before hatching.NEWS, BBC News,weblink Cuttlefish spot target prey early, 2008-05-06, 2008-06-05, Arms and mantle cavity Cuttlefish have eight arms and two additional elongated tentacles that are used to grasp prey. The elongated tentacles and mantle cavity serve as defense mechanisms; when approached by a predator, the cuttlefish can suck water into its mantle cavity and spread its arms in order to appear larger than normal.WEB,weblink Sepia bandensis: husbandry and breeding, The Octopus News Magazine Online, 2019-04-15, Though the mantle cavity is used for jet propulsion, the main parts of the body that are used for basic mobility are the fins, which can maneuver the cuttlefish in all directions.JOURNAL, Karson, Miranda A., Boal, Jean Geary, Hanlon, Roger T., Experimental evidence for spatial learning in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis), Journal of Comparative Psychology, American Psychological Association (APA), 117, 2, 2003, 1939-2087, 10.1037/0735-7036.117.2.149, 149–155, 12856785, Suckers The suckers of cuttlefish extend most of the length of their arms and along the distal portion of their tentacles. Like other cephalopods, cuttlefish have "taste-by-touch" sensitivity in their suckers, allowing them to discriminate among objects and water currents that they contact.BOOK, Cephalopod behaviour, Hanlon, Roger T., Messenger, John, 978-0521897853, 1040658735, 2018-03-22, Cambridge University Press, Circulatory system The blood of a cuttlefish is an unusual shade of green-blue, because it uses the copper-containing protein haemocyanin to carry oxygen instead of the red, iron-containing protein haemoglobin found in vertebrates' blood. The blood is pumped by three separate hearts: two branchial hearts pump blood to the cuttlefish's pair of gills (one heart for each), and the third pumps blood around the rest of the body. Cuttlefish blood must flow more rapidly than that of most other animals because haemocyanin carries substantially less oxygen than haemoglobin. Unlike most other mollusks, cephalopods like cuttlefish have a closed circulatory system.WEB, Fowler, Samantha, Roush, Rebecca, Wise, James, Mollusks and Annelids, BCcampus Open Publishing, 2013-04-25,weblink 2022-02-21, Ink Like other marine mollusks, cuttlefish have ink stores that are used for chemical deterrence, phagomimicry, sensory distraction, and evasion when attacked.JOURNAL, Derby, Charles D., Kicklighter, Cynthia E., Johnson, P. M., Zhang, Xu, 2007-05-01, Chemical Composition of Inks of Diverse Marine Molluscs Suggests Convergent Chemical Defenses, Journal of Chemical Ecology, en, 33, 5, 1105–1113, 10.1007/s10886-007-9279-0, 17393278, 2007JCEco..33.1105D, 92064, 0098-0331, Its composition results in a dark colored ink, rich in ammonium salts and amino acids that may have a role in phagomimicry defenses. The ink can be ejected to create a "smoke screen" to hide the cuttlefish's escape, or it can be released as a pseudomorph of similar size to the cuttlefish, acting as a decoy while the cuttlefish swims away.WEB,weblink NOVA {{!, Kings of Camouflage {{!}} Anatomy of a Cuttlefish (non-Flash) {{!}} PBS|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2019-04-15}}Human use of this substance is wide-ranged. A common use is in cooking with squid ink to darken and flavor rice and pasta. It adds a black tint and a sweet flavor to the food. In addition to food, cuttlefish ink can be used with plastics and staining of materials.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} The diverse composition of cuttlefish ink, and its deep complexity of colors, allows for dilution and modification of its color. Cuttlefish ink can be used to make noniridescent reds, blues, and greens,JOURNAL, Zhang, Yafeng, Dong, Biqin, Chen, Ang, Liu, Xiaohan, Shi, Lei, Zi, Jian, 2015, Using Cuttlefish Ink as an Additive to Produce Non-iridescent Structural Colors of High-Color Visibility, Advanced Materials, 27, 32, 4719–24, 10.1002/adma.201501936, 26175211, 2015AdM....27.4719Z, 10974421, subsequently used for biomimetic colors and materials.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Poison and venom A common gene between cuttlefish and almost all other cephalopods allows them to produce venom, excreting it through their beak to help kill their prey.WEB,weblinkweblink dead, September 30, 2018, All Octopuses Are Venomous, Study Says, 2009-04-17, Animals, 2019-08-06, Additionally, the muscles of the flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi) contain a highly toxic, unidentified compound as lethal as the venom of fellow cephalopod, the blue-ringed octopus.WEB,weblink Kings of Camouflage, www.pbs.org, 2019-08-06, However, this toxin is only found in the muscle and is not injected in any form classifying it as poisonous, not venomous. Sleep-like behavior Sleep is a state of immobility characterized by being rapidly reversible, homeostatically controlled, and increasing an organism's arousal threshold.JOURNAL, Frank, M.G., Waldrop, R.H., Dumoulin, M., Aton, S., Boal, J.G., A Preliminary Analysis of Sleep-Like States in the Cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, PLOS ONE, 7, 6, e38125, 2012, 10.1371/journal.pone.0038125, 22701609, 3368927, 2012PLoSO...738125F, free, JOURNAL, Iglesias, T.L., Boal, J.G., Frank, M.G., Zeil, J., Hanlon, R.T., Cyclic nature of the REM sleep-like state in the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, Journal of Experimental Biology, 222, 1, jeb174862, 2019, 10.1242/jeb.174862, 30446538, free, 1885/164660, free, To date one cephalopod species, Octopus vulgaris, has been shown to satisfy these criteria.JOURNAL, Meisel, D.V., Byrne, R.A., Mather, J.A., Kuba, M.,weblink Behavioral sleep in Octopus vulgaris, Vie et Milieu Life and Environment, 61, 4, 2011, Another species, Sepia officinalis, satisfies two of the three criteria but has not yet been tested on the third (arousal threshold). Recent research shows that the sleep-like state in a common species of cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, shows predictable periods of rapid eye movement, arm twitching and rapid chromatophore changes. Life cycle The lifespan of a cuttlefish is typically around one to two years, depending on the species. They hatch from eggs fully developed, around {{convert |1/4 |in |mm |0 |order=flip |abbr=on}} long, reaching {{convert|1|in|mm|0|order=flip|abbr=on}} around the first two months. Before death, cuttlefish go through senescence when the cephalopod essentially deteriorates, or rots in place. Their eyesight begins to fail, which affects their ability to see, move, and hunt efficiently. Once this process begins, cuttlefish tend to not live long due to predation by other organisms. Reproduction Cuttlefish start to actively mate at around five months of age. Male cuttlefish challenge one another for dominance and the best den during mating season. During this challenge, no direct contact is usually made. The animals threaten each other until one of them backs down and swims away. Eventually, the larger male cuttlefish mate with the females by grabbing them with their tentacles, turning the female so that the two animals are face-to-face, then using a specialized tentacle to insert sperm sacs into an opening near the female's mouth. As males can also use their funnels to flush others' sperm out of the female's pouch, the male then guards the female until she lays the eggs a few hours later.Bavendam, Fred (1995) "The Giant Cuttlefish Chameleon of the Reef". National Geographic, pp. 94–107. Print. After laying her cluster of eggs, the female cuttlefish secretes ink on them making them look very similar to grapes. The egg case is produced through a complex capsule of the female accessory genital glands and the ink bag.JOURNAL, Zatylny-Gaudin, Céline, Corre, Erwan, Corguillé, Gildas Le, Bernay, Benoit, Duval, Emilie, Goux, Didier, Henry, Joël, Cornet, Valérie, 2015-07-13, How Egg Case Proteins Can Protect Cuttlefish Offspring?, PLOS ONE, 10, 7, e0132836, 2015PLoSO..1032836C, 10.1371/journal.pone.0132836, 1932-6203, 4500399, 26168161, free, On occasion, a large competitor arrives to threaten the male cuttlefish. In these instances, the male first attempts to intimidate the other male. If the competitor does not flee, the male eventually attacks it to force it away. The cuttlefish that can paralyze the other first, by forcing it near its mouth, wins the fight and the female. Since typically four or five (and sometimes as many as 10) males are available for every female, this behavior is inevitable.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110104024948weblink">Mating Trick: Science Videos. Science News – ScienCentralCuttlefish are indeterminate growers, so smaller cuttlefish always have a chance of finding a mate the next year when they are bigger.weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130606112825weblink">Life: Cuttlefish Wards Off Rivals : Video : Discovery Channel. Dsc.discovery.com (2012-03-22). Retrieved on 2013-09-18. Additionally, cuttlefish unable to win in a direct confrontation with a guard male have been observed employing several other tactics to acquire a mate. The most successful of these methods is camouflage; smaller cuttlefish use their camouflage abilities to disguise themselves as a female cuttlefish. Changing their body color, and even pretending to be holding an egg sack, disguised males are able to swim past the larger guard male and mate with the female.JOURNAL, 10.1038/news050117-9, Cuttlefish win mates with transvestite antics, Ebert, Jessica, 2005, News@nature, JOURNAL, 15662403,weblink 2005, Hanlon, R.T., Naud, M.J., Shaw, P.W., Havenhand, J.N., Behavioural ecology: Transient sexual mimicry leads to fertilization, 433, 7023, 212, 10.1038/433212a, Nature, 2005Natur.433..212H, 1128929, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121114195350weblink">weblink November 14, 2012, Communication Cephalopods are able to communicate visually using a diverse range of signals. To produce these signals, cephalopods can vary four types of communication element: chromatic (skin coloration), skin texture (e.g. rough or smooth), posture, and locomotion. Changes in body appearance such as these are sometimes called polyphenism. The common cuttlefish can display 34 chromatic, six textural, eight postural and six locomotor elements, whereas flamboyant cuttlefish use between 42 and 75 chromatic, 14 postural, and seven textural and locomotor elements. The Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea) is thought to have up to 35 distinct signalling states.JOURNAL, Thomas, A., MacDonald, C., 2016, Investigating body patterning in aquarium-raised flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi), PeerJ, 4, e2035, 10.7717/peerj.2035, 27231657, 4878381, free, {| class="wikitable"|+ Visual signals of the common cuttlefish

Chromatic

File:Cuttlefish color.jpg|thumb|right|This alt=Two cuttlefish with dramatically different colorationCuttlefish are sometimes referred to as the "chameleons of the sea" because of their ability to rapidly alter their skin color – this can occur within one second. Cuttlefish change color and pattern (including the polarization of the reflected light waves), and the shape of the skin to communicate to other cuttlefish, to camouflage themselves, and as a deimatic display to warn off potential predators. Under some circumstances, cuttlefish can be trained to change color in response to stimuli, thereby indicating their color changing is not completely innate.JOURNAL, Hough, A. R., Case, J., Boal, J. G., 2016, Learned control of body patterning in cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda), Journal of Molluscan Studies, 10.1093/mollus/eyw006, 82, 3, 427–431, free, Cuttlefish can also affect the light's polarization, which can be used to signal to other marine animals, many of which can also sense polarization, as well as being able to influence the color of light as it reflects off their skin.JOURNAL, Mäthger, L. M., Shashar, N., Hanlon, R. T., Do cephalopods communicate using polarized light reflections from their skin?, 10.1242/jeb.020800, 2009, Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 14, 2133–2140, 19561202, 10216731, Although cuttlefish (and most other cephalopods) lack color vision, high-resolution polarisation vision may provide an alternative mode of receiving contrast information that is just as defined.JOURNAL, Temple, S. E., Pignatelli, V., Cook, T., How, M. J., Chiou, T. H., Roberts, N. W., Marshall, N. J., 2012, High-resolution polarisation vision in a cuttlefish, Current Biology, 22, 4, R121–R122, 10.1016/j.cub.2012.01.010, 22361145, free, The cuttlefish's wide pupil may accentuate chromatic aberration, allowing it to perceive color by focusing specific wavelengths onto the retina.JOURNAL, Douglas, Ronald H., The pupillary light responses of animals; a review of their distribution, dynamics, mechanisms and functions, Progress in Retinal and Eye Research, Wolters Kluwer, 66, 2018, 1350-9462, 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2018.04.005, 17–48, 29723580, 19936214,weblink JOURNAL, Stubbs, Stubbs, C., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, A., 113, 29, 8206–8211, 2016, Spectral discrimination in color-blind animals via chromatic aberration and pupil shape, 10.1073/pnas.1524578113, 27382180, 4961147, 2016PNAS..113.8206S, free, The three broad categories of color patterns are uniform, mottle, and disruptive.JOURNAL, Chiao, C. C., Chubb, C., Buresch, K. C., Barbosa, A., Allen, J. J., Mäthger, L. M., Hanlon, R. T., 2010, Mottle camouflage patterns in cuttlefish: quantitative characterization and visual background stimuli that evoke them, The Journal of Experimental Biology, 213, 2, 187–199, 10.1242/jeb.030247, 20038652, free, Cuttlefish can display as many as 12 to 14 patterns,JOURNAL, Crook, A. C., Baddeley, R., Osorio, D., 2002, Identifying the structure in cuttlefish visual signals, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 357, 1427, 1617–1624, 10.1098/rstb.2002.1070, 12495518, 1693061, 13 of which have been categorized as seven "acute" (relatively brief) and six "chronic" (long-lasting) patterns.JOURNAL, Hanlon, R. T., Messenger, J. B., 1988, Adaptive coloration in young cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis L.): the morphology and development of body patterns and their relation to behaviour, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 320, 1200, 10.1098/rstb.1988.0087, 2396667, 437–487, 1988RSPTB.320..437H, although other researchers suggest the patterns occur on a continuum. {| class="wikitable"|+ Patterns of the common cuttlefish ! Chronic! Acute|Uniform light|Uniform blanching|Stipple|Uniform darkening|Light mottle|Acute disruptive|Disruptive|Deimatic|Dark mottle|Flamboyant|Weak zebra|Intense zebra||Passing cloudThe color-changing ability of cuttlefish is due to multiple types of cells. These are arranged (from the skin's surface going deeper) as pigmented chromatophores above a layer of reflective iridophores and below them, leucophores.JOURNAL, 11762491, Messenger, J. B., Cephalopod chromatophores: neurobiology and natural history, 10.1017/S1464793101005772, Biological Reviews, 76, 4, 473–528, 2001, 17172396, "NOVA | Kings of Camouflage | Anatomy of a Cuttlefish". PBS. Retrieved 19 September 2013.

Chromatophores

The chromatophores are sacs containing hundreds of thousands of pigment granules and a large membrane that is folded when retracted. Hundreds of muscles radiate from the chromatophore. These are under neural control and when they expand, they reveal the hue of the pigment contained in the sac. Cuttlefish have three types of chromatophore: yellow/orange (the uppermost layer), red, and brown/black (the deepest layer). The cuttlefish can control the contraction and relaxation of the muscles around individual chromatophores, thereby opening or closing the elastic sacs and allowing different levels of pigment to be exposed. Furthermore, the chromatophores contain luminescent protein nanostructures in which tethered pigment granules modify light through absorbance, reflection, and fluorescence between 650 and 720 nm.JOURNAL, Deravi, L. F., 2014, The structure–function relationships of a natural nanoscale photonic device in cuttlefish chromatophores, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 11, 93, 20130942, etal, 10.1098/rsif.2013.0942, 24478280, 3928930, For cephalopods in general, the hues of the pigment granules are relatively constant within a species, but can vary slightly between species. For example, the common cuttlefish and the opalescent inshore squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) have yellow, red, and brown, the European common squid (Alloteuthis subulata) has yellow and red, and the common octopus has yellow, orange, red, brown, and black.In cuttlefish, activation of a chromatophore can expand its surface area by 500%. Up to 200 chromatophores per mm2 of skin may occur. In Loligo plei, an expanded chromatophore may be up to 1.5 mm in diameter, but when retracted, it can measure as little as 0.1 mm.WEB,weblink Harvard University, 2014, May 26, 2014, Karoff, P., 'Chameleon of the sea' reveals its secrets, WEB, Cuttlefish change color, shape-shift to elude predators, 2008, National Geographic, Hansford, D.,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080809062047weblink">weblink dead, August 9, 2008,

Iridophores

Retracting the chromatophores reveals the iridophores and leucophores beneath them, thereby allowing cuttlefish to use another modality of visual signalling brought about by structural coloration. Iridophores are structures that produce iridescent colors with a metallic sheen. They reflect light using plates of crystalline chemochromes made from guanine. When illuminated, they reflect iridescent colors because of the diffraction of light within the stacked plates. Orientation of the chemochromes determines the nature of the color observed. By using biochromes as colored filters, iridophores create an optical effect known as Tyndall or Rayleigh scattering, producing bright blue or blue-green colors. Iridophores vary in size, but are generally smaller than 1 mm. Squid at least are able to change their iridescence. This takes several seconds or minutes, and the mechanism is not understood. However, iridescence can also be altered by expanding and retracting the chromatophores above the iridophores. Because chromatophores are under direct neural control from the brain, this effect can be immediate.Cephalopod iridophores polarize light. Cephalopods have a rhabdomeric visual system which means they are visually sensitive to polarized light. Cuttlefish use their polarization vision when hunting for silvery fish (their scales polarize light). Female cuttlefish exhibit a greater number of polarized light displays than males and also alter their behavior when responding to polarized patterns. The use of polarized reflective patterns has led some to suggest that cephalopods may communicate intraspecifically in a mode that is "hidden" or "private" because many of their predators are insensitive to polarized light.JOURNAL, Mäthger, L. M., Shashar, N., Hanlon, R. T., 2009, Do cephalopods communicate using polarized light reflections from their skin?, Journal of Experimental Biology, 212, 14, 2133–2140, 10.1242/jeb.020800, 19561202, 10216731, JOURNAL, 19091688, 2706477, 2009, Mäthger, L. M., Mechanisms and behavioural functions of structural coloration in cephalopods, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 6, S149–163, Denton, E. J., Marshall, N. J., Hanlon, R. T., Suppl 2, 10.1098/rsif.2008.0366.focus,

Leucophores

(File:Kalamar.jpg|thumb|The white spots and bands on this cuttlefish are produced by leucophores.)Leucophores, usually located deeper in the skin than iridophores, are also structural reflectors using crystalline purines, often guanine, to reflect light. Unlike iridophores, however, leucophores have more organized crystals that reduce diffraction. Given a source of white light, they produce a white shine, in red they produce red, and in blue they produce blue. Leucophores assist in camouflage by providing light areas during background matching (e.g. by resembling light-colored objects in the environment) and disruptive coloration (by making the body appear to be composed of high-contrasting patches).The reflectance spectra of cuttlefish patterns and several natural substrates (stipple, mottle, disruptive) can be measured using an optic spectrometer.JOURNAL, Mathger, L. M., Chiao, C., Barbosa, A., Hanlon, R. T., amp, Color matching on natural substrates in cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis, 18414874, 2008, 194, 6, 577–585, 10.1007/s00359-008-0332-4, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 25111630,

Intraspecific

Cuttlefish sometimes use their color patterns to signal future intent to other cuttlefish. For example, during agonistic encounters, male cuttlefish adopt a pattern called the intense zebra pattern, considered to be an honest signal. If a male is intending to attack, it adopts a "dark face" change, otherwise, it remains pale.JOURNAL, Animal Behaviour, 52, 1, 1996, 73–81, Do cuttlefish (Cephalopoda) signal their intentions to conspecifics during agonistic encounters?, Adamo, S. A., Hanlon, R. T., 10.1006/anbe.1996.0153, 53186029, In at least one species, female cuttlefish react to their own reflection in a mirror and to other females by displaying a body pattern called "splotch". However, they do not use this display in response to males, inanimate objects, or prey. This indicates they are able to discriminate same-sex conspecifics, even when human observers are unable to discern the sex of a cuttlefish in the absence of sexual dimorphism.JOURNAL, Palmer, M. E., Calvé, M. R., Adamo, S. A., 2006, Response of female cuttlefish Sepia officinalis (Cephalopoda) to mirrors and conspecifics: evidence for signaling in female cuttlefish, Animal Cognition, 9, 2, 151–155, 10.1007/s10071-005-0009-0, 16408230, 19047398, Female cuttlefish signal their receptivity to mating using a display called precopulatory grey. Male cuttlefish sometimes use deception toward guarding males to mate with females. Small males hide their sexually dimorphic fourth arms, change their skin pattern to the mottled appearance of females, and change the shape of their arms to mimic those of nonreceptive, egg-laying females.Displays on one side of a cuttlefish can be independent of the other side of the body; males can display courtship signals to females on one side while simultaneously showing female-like displays with the other side to stop rival males interfering with their courtship.JOURNAL, Hutton, P., Seymoure, B. M., McGraw, K. J., Ligon, R. A., Simpson, R. K., 2015, Dynamic color communication, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 6, 41–49, 10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.08.007, 53195786, free,

Interspecific

The deimatic display (a rapid change to black and white with dark 'eyespots' and contour, and spreading of the body and fins) is used to startle small fish that are unlikely to prey on the cuttlefish, but use the flamboyant display towards larger, more dangerous fish,JOURNAL, Langridge, K. V., 2009, Cuttlefish use startle displays, but not against large predators, Animal Behaviour, 77, 4, 847–856, 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.11.023, 53144246, and give no display at all to chemosensory predators such as crabs and dogfish.One dynamic pattern shown by cuttlefish is dark mottled waves apparently repeatedly moving down the body of the animals. This has been called the passing cloud pattern. In the common cuttlefish, this is primarily observed during hunting, and is thought to communicate to potential prey – "stop and watch me" – which some{{Who|date=November 2023}} have interpreted as a type of "hypnosis".{{Citation needed|date=November 2023}}

Camouflage

{{Further|Camouflage|Crypsis|Animal coloration}}(File:Camouflage.jpg|thumb|right|Juvenile cuttlefish camouflaged against the seafloor)Cuttlefish are able to rapidly change the color of their skin to match their surroundings and create chromatically complex patterns,JOURNAL, Stuart-Fox, D., Moussalli, A., 19000973, 2009, Camouflage, communication and thermoregulation: Lessons from color changing organisms, 364, 1516, 463–470, 10.1098/rstb.2008.0254, 2674084, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, despite their inability to perceive color, through some mechanism which is not completely understood.JOURNAL, Mäthger, Lydia M., Barbosa, Alexandra, Miner, Simon, Hanlon, Roger T., Color blindness and contrast perception in cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) determined by a visual sensorimotor assay, Vision Research, May 2006, 46, 11, 1746–1753, 10.1016/j.visres.2005.09.035, 16376404, 16247757, They have been seen to have the ability to assess their surroundings and match the color, contrast and texture of the substrate even in nearly total darkness.The color variations in the mimicked substrate and animal skin are similar. Depending on the species, the skin of cuttlefish responds to substrate changes in distinctive ways. By changing naturalistic backgrounds, the camouflage responses of different species can be measured.JOURNAL, Shohet, A., Baddeley, R., Anderson, J., Osorio, D., amp, 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00842.x,weblink Cuttlefish camouflage: A quantitative study of patterning, 2007, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 92, 2, 335–345, free, Sepia officinalis changes color to match the substrate by disruptive patterning (contrast to break up the outline), whereas S. pharaonis matches the substrate by blending in. Although camouflage is achieved in different ways, and in an absence of color vision, both species change their skin colors to match the substrate. Cuttlefish adapt their own camouflage pattern in ways that are specific for a particular habitat. An animal could settle in the sand and appear one way, with another animal a few feet away in a slightly different microhabitat, settled in algae for example, will be camouflaged quite differently.Cuttlefish are also able to change the texture of their skin. The skin contains bands of circular muscle which as they contract, push fluid up. These can be seen as little spikes, bumps, or flat blades. This can help with camouflage when the cuttlefish becomes texturally as well as chromatically similar to objects in its environment such as kelp or rocks.

Diet

File:Red cuttle hunting.webm|thumb|Video of S. mestus in SydneySydneyWhile the preferred diet of cuttlefish is crabs and fish, they feed on small shrimp shortly after hatching."Cuttlefish Basics". Tonmo.com (12 February 2003). Retrieved 18 September 2011.{{better source needed|date=November 2023}}

Human uses

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As food

File:linguine with cuttlefish.jpg|thumb|Linguine with cuttlefish and ink sauce served at a Venetian alt=Three-sided white plate containing linguiniCuttlefish are caught for food in the Mediterranean, East Asia, the English Channel, and elsewhere.In East Asia, dried, shredded cuttlefish is a popular snack food. In the Qing Dynasty manual of Chinese gastronomy, the Suiyuan shidan, the roe of the cuttlefish, is considered a difficult-to-prepare, but sought-after delicacy.WEB, Seafoods 7: Cuttlefish roe (烏魚蛋), Translating the Suiyuan Shidan,weblink 2014, Cuttlefish are quite popular in Europe. For example, in northeast Italy, they are used in risotto al nero di seppia (risotto with cuttlefish ink), also found in Croatia and Montenegro as crni rižot (black risotto), and in various recipes (either grilled or stewed) often served together with polenta. Catalan cuisine, especially that of the coastal regions, uses cuttlefish and squid ink in a variety of tapas and dishes such as arròs negre. Breaded and deep-fried cuttlefish is a popular dish in Andalusia. In Portugal, cuttlefish is present in many popular dishes. Chocos com tinta (cuttlefish in black ink), for example, is grilled cuttlefish in a sauce of its own ink. Cuttlefish is also popular in the region of Setúbal, where it is served as deep-fried strips or in a variant of feijoada, with white beans. Black pasta is often made using cuttlefish ink.

Sepia

Cuttlefish ink was formerly an important dye, called sepia. To extract the sepia pigment from a cuttlefish (or squid), the ink sac is removed and dried then dissolved in a dilute alkali. The resulting solution is filtered to isolate the pigment, which is then precipitated with dilute hydrochloric acid. The isolated precipitate is the sepia pigment.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}} It is relatively chemically inert, which contributes to its longevity. Today, artificial dyes have mostly replaced natural sepia.

Metal casting

Cuttlebone has been used since antiquity to make casts for metal. A model is pushed into the cuttlebone and removed, leaving an impression. Molten gold, silver or pewter can then be poured into the cast.WEB,weblink [Ganoksin] Cuttlefish Casting – Theory and Practice of Goldsmithing, www.ganoksin.com, 2016-09-03, {{Citation|last=Morris Bywater Limited|title=Cuttlefish Casting: The Making of a Gold Signet Ring|date=2014-02-26|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6hiF2LB5s |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/5V6hiF2LB5s |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|access-date=2016-09-03}}{{cbignore}}

Smart clothing

Research into replicating biological color-changing has led to engineering artificial chromatophores out of small devices known as dielectric elastomer actuators. Engineers at the University of Bristol have engineered soft materials that mimic the color-changing skin of animals like cuttlefish,JOURNAL, Rossiter, Jonathan, Yap, Bryan, Conn, Andrew, 2012, Biomimetic chromatophores for camouflage and soft active surfaces, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 7, 036009, 2012BiBi....7c6009R, 22549047, 3, 10.1088/1748-3182/7/3/036009, 14392264, paving the way for "smart clothing" and camouflage applications.WEB, Anthes, Emily, Cuttlefish provide smart fashion tips,weblink BBC.com, 12 September 2012,

Pets

Though cuttlefish are rarely kept as pets, due in part to their fairly short life spans, the most commonly kept are Sepia officinalis and Sepia bandensis.Ceph Care | TONMO.com: The Octopus News Magazine Online {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150512224905weblink |date=2015-05-12 }}. TONMO.com. Retrieved on 2015-09-25. Cuttlefish may fight or even eat each other if there is inadequate tank space for multiple individuals.

See also

• Cephalopod size

References

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External links

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• YouTube video with examples of cuttlefish color and texture modulations
• WEB,weblink Kings of Camouflage: Cuttlefish, Nova (American TV program), NOVA, PBS,
• The new CEPHBASE within the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112225313weblink |date=2016-01-12 }}
• Cuttlefish brain map and genome

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