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Besides kraken, the monster went under a variety of names early on, the most common after kraken being horven ("the horv"). [17] Icelandic philologist Finnur Jónsson explained this name in 1920 as an alternative form of harv (lit. ' harrow ') and conjectured that this name was suggested by the inkfish's action of seeming to plow the sea. [16]
Peak weight measured in October 2016. Reduced 345 kg (761 lb; 54 st 5 lb) by February 2018. [6] 1985 Robert Butler [7] United States: M 544 kg 1,200 lb 85 st 9 lb In 2006 he was 408 kg (899 lb; 64 st 3 lb), reached peak weight in 2015, the year of his death. [8] 1972–2015 (43) Walter Hudson United States: M 543 kg 1,197 lb 85 st 7 lb
The minnow family (which includes carp), Cyprinidae, is the largest family of vertebrates, with over 2400 species known today. [96] The largest species is the giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis), which is endemic to three river basins in southeast Asia and reaches a size of as much as 3 m (9.8 ft) and a weight of as much as 300 kg (660 lb). [97]
The relative weight (W r) of an individual fish is its actual weight divided by its standard weight, times 100%. [8] A fish of "normal" weight has a relative weight of 100 percent. The relative weight of a fish does not indicate its health on a continuous scale from 0 -100%, however.
The giant squid is widespread, occurring in all of the world's oceans. It is usually found near continental and island slopes from the North Atlantic Ocean, especially Newfoundland, Norway, the northern British Isles, Spain and the oceanic islands of the Azores and Madeira, to the South Atlantic around southern Africa, the North Pacific around Japan, and the southwestern Pacific around New ...
Consider one red drum that is 400 millimeters long and has a weight of 616 grams. Based on the reference weight-length relationship, a red drum that is 400 mm long is expected to have a weight of 655 grams. The condition index for that fish is its actual weight divided by its expected weight times one hundred percent, or (616g/655g)x100% = 94%.
Not much is known about the colossal squid's reproductive cycle, although it does have two distinct sexes. Many species of squid, however, develop sex-specific organs as they age and develop. [ 42 ] The adult female colossal squid has been discovered in much shallower waters, which likely implies that females spawn in shallower waters, rather ...
The Humboldt squid is the largest of the Ommastrephid squids, as some individuals may grow to 1.5 m (5 ft) in mantle length [17] [18] and weigh up to 50 kg (110 lb). [8] They appear to be sexually dimorphic : on average the females mature at larger sizes than the males. [ 19 ]