An alternative or variant spelling of a sea creature or marine organism, possibly relating to squid or cephalopod species.
Possibly from Greek 'kephalos' (head) or related to cephalopod terminology, though the exact etymology is obscure and the term is rarely used in modern scientific literature.
Cephen is a word you'll rarely encounter in modern science—it represents a layer of scientific terminology that's been replaced by more standardized nomenclature, but it reminds us that early naturalists had wildly different names for sea creatures before systematic taxonomy unified biological naming.
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