Species group · Cephalopods

Squid

WAnimals has 6 species of squid, spread across 6 families (Architeuthidae, Cranchiidae, Loliginidae, Ommastrephidae, Sepiolidae, Vampyroteuthidae).

6 species

6 families

170 countries

69 parks

All 6 species of squid on WAnimals

Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.

4 Not Evaluated1 Least Concern1 Data Deficient

No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.

Recorded in 170 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:

It completes its whole life cycle in roughly a year.
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It is one of the most commercially important squid in European fisheries.
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It is occasionally cannibalistic.
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It changes colour in waves of red and white to communicate; it lives only a year or two and grows to 2 m.
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It is the largest squid in its family and supports one of the largest cephalopod fisheries in the world, above all in Peru, Chile and Mexico.
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It grows extraordinarily fast: it reaches more than a metre and tens of kilos in little over a year, and dies after breeding.
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It is the largest invertebrate known, and its eyes can be up to 30 centimetres across, the largest recorded anywhere in the animal kingdom.
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It has the largest eyes in the animal kingdom, at 27 cm across.
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