Species Profile
Architeuthes
Giant squid
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Architeuthes inhabits deep sea.
It is carnivorous and powerful.
Represents extreme cephalopod adaptation.
Size & Structure
01
Extremely long body
02
Huge eyes
03
Long tentacles
04
Strong suckers
Architeuthes — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Eucoelomate (reduced)
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Protostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral symmetry
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete, extracellular
- Nervous system
- Highly developed
- Excretory organ
- Metanephridia
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Ctenidial respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Internal pen
- Level of Organisation
- Organ-system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Deep-sea predator
Marine food web
Apex invertebrate
Economic Importance
Marine biology research
Museum specimen
Evolutionary studies