Species Profile
Loligo
Squid
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumMollusca
ClassCephalopoda
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Loligo lives in open seas.
It is active and carnivorous.
Important marine predator.
Size & Structure
01
Streamlined body
02
Eight arms and two tentacles
03
Large eyes
04
Fins present
Loligo — 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
Active predator
Marine food web
Controls fish population
Economic Importance
Edible seafood
Fishery importance
Research organism