Squids

*Kingdom-Animalia

*Phylum-Millusca

*Class-Cephalopoda                          

*Subclass-Coleoidea

*Superorder-Decapodiformers

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Tenicle

Squid like cuttlefish have eight arms arranged in pairs and two longer tenticle. (The only known exception is the bigfin squid group, which have ten very long, thin arms of equal length.)Some giant squids even wrestle with whales, but the whales are victorious almost all of the time, but they are scarred from that battle.

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Size

     A normal squid can reach to 60 centimeters long, although a gaint squid can reach to 13 metres long.

     A collosal Squid was discovered as 14metres making it the largest invertibrate.Squids have the largest eye in the animal kingdom 

Nervous System

     The gaint axon, which may be up to 1 mm in diameter in some larger species, innervates the mantle and controls part of its jet proposion system.

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Digestive System

     Squids have a complex digestive system. The muscular stomach is found in roughly in the midpoint section of the visceral mass. A long white organ called caecum is found next to the ovary or testis. In mature squid, more priorityis given to reproduction such that the stomach and caecum often shrivel up during the later life stages. Finally, food goes in the liver found at the siphon end, for absorption. Solid waste is passed out of the rectum. Beside the rectum is the ink sac, which allows a squid to rapidly discharge black ink into the mantle cavity.

Food

Many Species are popular as food in cuisines as diverse as Greek, Turkish, Japenese, Italian, Spanish, and Korean.

Squid as food is often marketed using the Italian word Calimari

The body can be stuffed whole, cut into flat pieces or sliced into rings. The arms, tentacles and ink are also edible; in fact, the only parts that are not eaten are the beak and the gladius.