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- Type,Geography,Environment,Size,Comments
- Giant,Worldwide colder oceans such as Soviet Union and South Africa,
- Deepwater,Up to 30 Meters, Beak-like mouth strong enough to cut
- through steel cable. Five pairs of arms. Eyes that are the largest
- in the animal kingdom - as big as eighteen inches across.
- Long-finned,From Newfoundland Canada to the Gulf of Venezuela,Pelagic
- schooling loliginid distributed in continental shelf and slope waters,
- Up to 40 cm,The short lifespan of long-finned squid combined with their
- rapid growth and capacity to spawn year-round leads to a seasonally
- dynamic resource for fishermen.Short-finned,from Florida USA to Labrador
- Canada in the Western Atlantic,
- Gulf Stream is thought to be an important transport mechanism for larvae
- and juveniles. As adults they stay on the continental shelf, Up to 35 cm,
- Short-finned squid are essentially an annual species with a life cycle
- of roughly one year.
- Stubby,Range is from Japan around to southern California, Found most
- often at night below about 30 feet on a sand or mud bottom or where that
- kind of bottom meets a rock wall,Up to size of a golf ball,They lay a real
- distinctive egg that looks like a fake plastic pearl attached to a rock
- usually in a small crevice. This animal does not normally inhabit the
- intertidal zone so you are very unlikely to find it beachwalking or
- tidepooling.
- Opalescent,Range is southern Alaska to Baja but this animal is palagic,
- Continental shelf dweller,up to 40 cm, A rare but wonderful site this
- is the squid of Calamari fame. Their eggs called squid candles
- (white tubes about 3 inches long) are a more likely find.
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