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Cultellus
A cutlass is a short, broad sabre or slashing sword with a straight or slightly curved blade sharpened on the cutting edge and a hilt often featuring a solid cupped or basket-shaped guard. It was a common naval weapon during the early Age of Sail.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Knife Finger Oyster
speciesCultellus attenuatus
Cultellus maximus
speciesCultellus maximus
Cultellus subellipticus
speciesCultellus subellipticus
Cultellus vitreus
speciesCultellus vitreus
Cultellus hanleyi
speciesCultellus hanleyi
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 540916.