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SpeciesOegopsidaArchiteuthidae
Invertebrates

🦑Giant squid

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

Гіганський кальмар (Architeuthis dux) — вид кальмарів родини Architeuthidae.

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≈ 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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Facts and figures

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
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Maximum lifespan
35 years
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data quality: questionable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

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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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumMollusca
  3. ›classCephalopoda
  4. ›orderOegopsida
  5. ›familyArchiteuthidae
  6. ›genusArchiteuthis
  7. ›speciesArchiteuthis dux
Full lineage
  1. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  2. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  3. familyArchiteuthidae
  4. genusArchiteuthis
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumMolluscs · Mollusca
  3. classOctopuses & squid · Cephalopoda
  4. subclassColeoidea
  5. superorderDecapodiformes
  6. familyArchiteuthidae
  7. genusArchiteuthis
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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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Archie2Architeuthis dux Smithsonain MuseumArchiteuthis dux 68146399
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