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Daily Age Markings on the Shell of Cuttlefishes

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MUCH information concerning the growth of the shell in mollusca is available, and this indicates the close relation between growth of shell and physiological periodicity of the living body1.

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CHOE, S. Daily Age Markings on the Shell of Cuttlefishes. Nature 197, 306–307 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197306b0

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