The Mysterious Animal Known as the Squid

Mysterious animals known as squid have stimulated folklore, art, fear, awe, and a long story for centuries. Mysterious Kraken encourages you to whisper the story after turning off the light. Many people think that the only species of squid is a huge squid, it is more than 40 feet in the official record. However, there are over 300 recorded carp species of various sizes. Scientific classification of squid is as follows: Kingdom: Animal kingdom, animal door: molluscan, Category: cephalopod, order: Teutida, family: Pyroteuthidae, genus: Pyroteuthis, binary name: P

Large squid, Architeuthis dux (Steenstrup, 1857), perhaps the largest known cephalopods, largest mollusks, perhaps the largest invertebrate ever (probably a huge squid, except for Mesonychoteuthis) hamiltoni) It is almost twice as long as a squid. ). According to media reports, the full length of these squids is 18 meters (about 60 feet) including the head, body, arms, and two long tentacles - these tentacles are much longer than the rest of the body is. Indeed, the average length of a huge squid is 3-9 meters and the total length is 13 meters (Look at the whale shark and the huge squid which weighs up to 900 kg, but the average weight is 455 kg Does not exceed.

Like all squids, the huge squid has a mantle (torso), eight arms and two longer tentacles (the longest known tentacles of every cephalopod). Because most of the length of the cuttlefish is occupied by arms and tentacles, it is much lighter than sperm whale, the main predator. There are hundreds of scientific records, not thousands of kilograms (about 200 pounds per 100 kilograms). Hundreds of spherical suction cups with diameters ranging from 2 to 5 cm (0.79 to 1.97 inches) are lined up on the inside of the arms and tentacles and are attached to the rods, respectively. These suction cups are sharp, fine serrated chitin rings lining up. The drilling of these teeth and suction of the cups are used to attach the squid to its prey. It is common to find a circular scar on the head of a whale attacking a sucker of a huge squid.