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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]
Dinomyrmex gigas, the giant forest ant Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same abbreviated species scientific name .
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
In the academic literature alone, such misidentifications encompass at least the oegopsid families Chiroteuthidae (misidentification #[8]—Asperoteuthis lui), Cranchiidae (#[5] and —Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), Ommastrephidae (#[1]—Sthenoteuthis pteropus and #[2]—Dosidicus gigas), Onychoteuthidae (#[7], , and —Onykia robusta), and ...
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