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    Bigfin squids are a group of rarely seen cephalopods with a distinctive morphology. They are placed in the genus Magnapinna and family Magnapinnidae....
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    commonly known as the bigfin reef squid, tiger squid, glitter squid, oval squid, or northern calamari, is a species of loliginid squid. It is one of the three...
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    swimming fins. An extreme development of the cephalopod fin is seen in the bigfin squid of the family Magnapinnidae. Fins project from the mantle and are often...
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    cephalopods are active predators (with the possible exceptions of the bigfin squid and vampire squid). Their need to locate and capture their prey has likely been...
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    A squid (pl.: squid) is a mollusc with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the orders Myopsida, Oegopsida, and Bathyteuthida...
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    It is the closest relative of the bizarre, famous bigfin squids (genus Magnapinna). The Joubin's squid has been sighted most recently by Schmidt Ocean Institute...
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    (0.035 oz) at maturity, while the giant squid can exceed 10 metres (33 ft) in length and the colossal squid weighs close to half a tonne (1,100 lb),...
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    Magnapinna talismani (category Bigfin squid)
    Magnapinna talismani is a species of bigfin squid known only from a single damaged specimen. It is characterised by small white nodules present on the...
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  • relationship with depth. Some invertebrates do occur deeper, such as bigfin squid, certain polynoid worms, myriotrochid sea cucumbers, turrid snails and...
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  • Magnapinna sp. C (category Bigfin squid)
    Magnapinna sp. C is an undescribed species of bigfin squid known only from a single specimen of 79-millimetre (3.1 in) mantle length (ML) collected in...
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