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The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid or jumbo flying squid (EN), and Pota in Peru or Jibia in Chile (ES), is a large, predatory squid living in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the only known species of the genus Dosidicus of the subfamily Ommastrephinae , family Ommastrephidae .
Ommastrephinae includes the largest species of squids belonging to the family Ommastrephidae, Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) which can grow to 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in mantle length (ML). [3] It also contains the smallest squid species belonging to the family, the glass squid ( Hyaloteuthis pelagica ) which has a mantle length of only up to 9 ...
The ommastrephids are small to large squids, with mantle lengths ranging from that of the glass squid (Hyaloteuthis pelagica) at 9 cm (3.5 in), [4] to the Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas) at 1.5 m (4.9 ft). [5] The mantle narrows towards the back and possesses large terminal fins. [6]
Patellidae. Cellana ardosioea (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841); Concholepas concholepas. Cypraeidae. Cypraea caputdraconis (Melvill, 1888); Cypraea englerti (Summers ...
Similarly, giant squid are unlikely to naturally occur in the North Sea owing to its shallow depth [42] (but see #107 and 113, the only known English strandings). They are generally absent from equatorial and high polar latitudes [ 57 ] (but see #215 and 249 from equatorial Atlantic waters, and specimens from northern Norway [ 58 ] or #102 from ...
Ommastrephes giganteus, a synonym for Dosidicus gigas, the Humboldt squid or Jumbo Squid, a large predatory squid species found in the waters of the Humboldt Current in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Topics referred to by the same term
Cranchioidea is a superfamily of squid in the order Oegopsida.They form the most basal clade within the order. [1] [2]It contains three families, with the following genera: [2] ...
Dosidicus gigas: Wild 950,630 Milkfish Chanos chanos: Cultivated 943,259 Atlantic mackerel Scomber scombrus: Wild 910,697 Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss: Cultivated 855,982 Giant tiger prawn Asian tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon: Cultivated 855,055 Araucanian herring Clupea bentincki: Wild 848,466 Chinese razor clam Agemaki clam Sinonovacula ...