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 Squid - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The squid is a marine mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, subclass Coleoidea, order Teuthida, of which there are two major suborders, Myopsina and Oegopsina (including the giant squids like Architeuthis dux).
There is also one squid species grouped within the octopodiform ("eight legged") superclass: the Vampire Squid.
Squid is a popular food in many parts of the world, and finds its way into cuisines as widely separated as the Japanese and the Italian.
encyclopedia.learnthis.info /s/sq/squid.html   (443 words)

  
 Articles - Squid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian.
Like all cephalopods, squids are distinguished by having a distinct head, bilateral symmetry, a mantle, and tentacles with suckers; squid, like cuttlefish, have eight arms and two tentacles arranged in pairs.
The majority of squid are no more than 60 cm in length, but the giant squid is reportedly up to 20 m in length, which made it the largest invertebrate in the world, and it has the largest eyes of all.
www.foreverd.com /articles/Squid   (640 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Sea Squids Owe Their Glow To Molecule Previously Linked To Whooping Cough   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
William Goldman, Ph.D., professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine, originally identified TCT in 1982 in studies of the effects of Bordetella pertussis, the bacteria that causes whooping cough.
Squid -- Squids are the large, diverse group of marine cephalopods popular as food in cuisines as widely separated as Korean and Italian.
Giant squid -- Giant squids, once believed to be mythical creatures, are squid of the Architeuthidae family, represented by as many as eight species of the genus Architeuthis.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/01/050110121430.htm   (1279 words)

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