🦑Giant squid

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857

大王魷（學名：Architeuthis dux，英語：giant squid）又名大王魷魚、大王烏賊、巨烏賊，是一種生活在太平洋和大西洋深海的魷魚，其天敵是抹香鯨，是世界上數一數二大的無脊椎動物。雌性烏賊全長大約12-13米，其身體長度大約為4米，觸手長度為10米甚至更長，眼睛大如餐盘；雄性比雌性小得多，但並未發現過完整活體；根據最新紀錄，其全长最大可达18米。大王鱿的品種劃分虽有爭議，但最近的研究表明，該分類中僅此物種被發現。大王魷曾被認為是一種傳說中的生物（克拉肯）甚至是克蘇魯，北欧神话的海怪就是以牠为原型，只不过尺寸、攻击性和智商被夸大。由於活動領域在深海，人們對大王魷多半只能從其天敵抹香鯨胃中未消化的殘骸中和漁民們口耳相傳的目睹事件中拼湊猜測其生態，對於某些生物学家而言是絕對存在的。大王魷的手腕非常之长而使其成為最长的軟體動物，不过体重仍不及哈氏中爪鱿，因此这两者并列為地球上最大的軟體動物。

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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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Everything we know about the Giant squid

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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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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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