"The circulatory system of cephalopods is an extensive system of vessels and capillaries . . . Blood within the vessels follows more or less the same route through the body as in other molluscs, but in addition to a systemic heart, the circuit includes two branchial hearts, which pump blood through the gills."

--Edward Ruppert and Robert Barnes, Invertebrate Zoology

The Third Heart is being merged with The Cephalopodiatrist.

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