🦑Humboldt squid
Der Humboldt-Kalmar (Dosidicus gigas), auch Humboldtkalmar, Riesen-Pfeilkalmar oder Riesen-Flugkalmar, ist ein pelagischer Kopffüßer aus der Ordnung der Kalmare. Er ist die einzige Art der damit monotypischen Gattung Dosidicus. Verbreitet ist er an der Pazifikküste Nord- und Südamerikas. Den Namen „Humboldt-Kalmar“ hat er vom Humboldtstrom, in dessen Gebiet er lebt. „Riesen-Flugkalmar“ (engl. jumbo flying squid) wird er wegen der Fähigkeit, sich aus dem Wasser zu katapultieren, genannt.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.
- Body mass
- 3 kg
- Body length
- 0.8 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Humboldt squid
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3 kgmaximum recordedSeaLifeBaseDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length0.8 mtypical adult, total lengthSeaLifeBaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 4 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
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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 Humboldt squid yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumMollusca
- ›classCephalopoda
- ›orderOegopsida
- ›familyOmmastrephidae
- ›genusDosidicus
- ›speciesDosidicus gigas
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
- familyOmmastrephidae
- genusDosidicus
All 7 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
- classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
- subclassColeoidea
- superorderDecapodiformes
- familyOmmastrephidae
- genusDosidicus
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