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Members of the Squid Family, Gonotopsis borealis, the Armhook Squid

January 12, 2015
Members of the squid family caught during a pollock cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson

Photo: Melissa George

Members of the squid family caught during a pollock cruise aboard the NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson. Mollusca is one of the most diverse groups of animals on the planet, with at least 50,000 living species (and more likely around 200,000). It includes such familiar organisms as sea snails, octopuses, squid, clams, and chitons, all of which we have seen on this mission. They all have soft bodies which typically have a “head” and a “foot” region. Often their bodies are covered by a hard exoskeleton, as in the shells of snails and clams or the plates of chitons. Squid and octopuses have small internal shells.
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