Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2014 May 12;12(5):2700–2730. doi: 10.3390/md12052700

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© 2014 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

PMC Copyright notice

Inking mollusks. Three inking cephalopod mollusks (A–C) and one inking gastropod mollusk (D). (A) Humboldt squid, Dosidicus gigas (used with permission from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Initiative); (B) Squid with an ink cloud in the background (used with permission from Klaus Stiefel); (C) Octopus escaping and inking (used with permission from Jeffrey N. Jeffords); (D) Sea hare, Aplysia californica (used with permission from Genevieve Anderson). The sea hare’s use of ink as a chemical defense has been well studied (Section 5) and can be used as a model for exploring the cephalopods’ use of ink as a chemical defense.