 Additionally, they can show a mottled white and brown color, with a center circle of brown.The mechanism for color in the Pharaoh cuttlefish is about the same as it is in other cuttlefish.This color-changing function is produced by groups of red, yellow, brown, and black pigmented chromatophores above a layer of reflective blue and green tinted iridophores and leucophores, with up to 200 of these specialized pigment cells per square millimeter.