🦑Humboldt squid

Dosidicus gigas (D'Orbigny, 1835)

דיונון הומבולדט הידוע גם כדיונון ג'מבו (שם מדעי: Dosidicus gigas) הוא מין רכיכה ימית גדולה החיה באוקיינוס השקט. זהו מין דיונון יחידי בסוג Dosidicus והוא הדיונון הגדול ביותר באזור מחייתו. שמו ניתו לו עקב מחיתו בזרם הומבולדט על שמו של חוקר הטבע המפורסם אלכסנדר פון הומבולדט.

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vs you

≈ 1/21st of your weight

Also called

Dosidicus gigas, Jumbo Flying Squid

Conservation status

DDData deficient

IUCN Red List assessment, 2014.

Population trendUnknown

Key measurements

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

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Everything we know about the Humboldt squid

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

Body mass

3 kgmaximum recorded

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Body length

0.8 mtypical adult, total length

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4 mSeaLifeBasev25.04

Volume l

3 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 Humboldt squid yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Dosidicus gigas (fr), calamar gegant del corrent de Humboldt (ca), Humboldt-Kalmar (de), Dosidicus gigas (es), Dosidicus gigas (gl), Dosidicus gigas (it) … and 20 more languages