🦑Giant squid

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

Kæmpeblæksprutten (Architeuthis dux) er en af de største arter af tiarmede blæksprutter. Den har 8 almindelige arme med sugekopper og 2 længere fangarme ligeledes med sugekopper. Hunner menes at kunne blive op til 18 meter. Den lever formentlig af dybhavsfisk.

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vs you

≈ 3.5× your weight

Conservation status

LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendUnknown

Key measurements

Body mass: 220 kg
Body length: 20 m
Shoulder height: not recorded
Top speed: not recorded
Bite force: not recorded
Maximum lifespan: 35 years

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Everything we know about the Giant squid

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass

220 kgmaximum recorded

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Body length

20 mmaximum recorded, total length

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Maximum lifespan

35 years

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data quality: questionable

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Volume l

220 Laverage

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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Giant squid yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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In other languages

Architeuthis dux (fr), krakatice obrovská (cs), Atlantische reuzeninktvis (nl), Гигантский кальмар (ru), Chytľan obrovitý (sk), Riesenkalmar (de) … and 18 more languages

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