🦑Giant squid

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

El calamar gigante del Atlántico (Architeuthis dux) es una especie de calamar gigante, ubicado dentro del género Architeuthis. Hasta ahora, se reportó la presencia de estos moluscos en el Océano Atlántico (aquí ocurrieron los primeros avistamientos y por eso se le denomina como "calamar del Atlántico") y el Océano Pacífico. No se sabe mucho sobre ellos. En España es conocido desde antiguo, y en la costa asturiana es denominado como peludín, posiblemente el único lugar de Europa donde tiene un nombre común.

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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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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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