In the eyes of many people, octopus, cuttlefish, squid are silly and unclear, let's use a sentence to distinguish and summarize them.
Octopus: eight middle feet, round head, no hard shell bone; squid: rocket head, ten feet, two long, no hard bones; cuttlefish: oval head, with hard bones.
Today, let's sort out how many species of squid there are in the world.
Squid: also known as soft fish, also known as: gun squid, is a decapod gun squid.
The body of the squid is conical, pale, with light brown spots, a large head, 10 tentacles in front of it, and a triangular fin at the tail end.
It is often found in shallow seas in the upper middle and upper seas, feeding on krill, sardines, silver mandarin fish, and small male fish.
Chinese spear squid
The spear squid, also known as the rocket squid, is commonly known as the big worker, the big pipe, the pen tube, and the gun barrel.
The main fishing grounds are located in the Penghu Islands and the minnan sea on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but they are also found in the northern Gulf of Guangxi, around Hainan Island, NanpengLie Island and the South China Sea.
Its peak period is from May to June, and it can generally be captured after May Day in South Australia. Compared with other cuttlefish or squid, its taste is thinner and sweeter, and it is generally used for stir-frying or sashimi.
The spear squid is also used to dry dried squid, which is relatively high in the same squid, and at the same time delicious, it is a valuable seafood flavor, listed as a first-class product in the market, and sold well in China, Japan and Southeast Asia.
Japanese gun squid
Japanese gun squid, also known as a mouth tube, small tube, Japanese squid, nizai, small lock tube, up to 15 cm, shaped like a squid (here the squid finger lock tube), the individual is shorter and smaller than the squid, the body is short and wide.
Its protein content is higher, the content of essential amino acids for human beings is richer, and the fat content is lower, which is a seafood with high nutritional value.
Generally used for white burning or oil stewing, sweet and refreshing, elastic.
European squid
It is one of the least common squid on the market, commonly known as giant lock tubes, of which there is a currently discovered one, called the king sour squid is a giant European squid.
It is mainly distributed in the deep waters below 500 meters from the North Sea to the west coast of Africa.
Red squid
Known as the red squid, also known as the stem soft fish, it is very large, muscular, up to 1.5 m long and weighs up to 40 kg, and is known for attacking humans, but this kind of thing does not happen very often.
The squid has a lifespan of about two years, mainly living in waters 200-700 meters deep, mainly distributed in the eastern waters of the Americas, from the United States of Alaska, Canada BC, Washington state, Mexico, Peru all the way to Chile.
Dragon mulberry squid
It is also a type of locked pipe, known as deep-sea squid, which mainly lives in subtropical and tropical waters, with water depths of up to 700 meters to 900 meters.
The most common chilled squid in the market is this type of locked tube, which is basically obtained by trawling.
It is distributed in the South China Sea and the southern part of the Japanese archipelago.
Pacific pleated softfish
Japanese squid, lock tube, middle tube, middle ni, northern squid, supermarket dried squid almost half of the squid is from this squid.
Mainly distributed in the Yellow Sea, the north of the East China Sea, fat meat, fresh taste, can be eaten fresh. The dried product processed into it is called dried squid, which is cheaper than rocket dried squid.
It usually inhabits open sea waters, prefers weak light, lurks on the seabed during the day, floats up in the middle and upper layers at night, and rises to the near surface in the morning and evening and at night.
Sword-tipped gun squid
The common name of the sword-tipped gun squid is true lock tube, dilation, and regular work, and the female individual basically stops feeding for several days before spawning.
Usually, the night feeding intensity of this squid exceeds that of daytime, especially late at night and before dawn, so squid anglers go to sea late at night and return early in the morning.
Firefly squid
Also known as glowworm squid or firefly squid, it is a very small squid, usually only 7.6 cm long.
Like other deep-sea creatures, they emit light, and these lights can be used to lure prey.
Firefly squid are mostly found in the Sea of Japan and the Pacific Ocean north of Shikoku.
The glowing apparatus of the firefly squid is long in the tentacles, but the glowing place of the firefly squid is not only in the tentacles, the whole body of the firefly squid can emit light.
Although the above squid are mostly named after squid, but they are not squid, as for squid, we will talk about it in detail in the next issue, so that you know what is soft silk and what is a flower branch!