loligos

Updated: June 10, 2025

Here, too, are the skeletons of the slender loligos, or sea leaves, known also as sea-pens; and the crozier shell. And here, too, we must entreat the visitor to forget the poetic history of the inhabitants of those beautiful shells, and learn that the extended arms of the nautilus are used only to clasp its shell; that it has no sails of any kind.

W. Blanchard Jerrold - How to See the British Museum in Four Visits