Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 - Giant squid

Description

Architeuthis dux Steenstrup 1857, giant squid, tentacle club, collected by Professor James Ritchie from Skateraw, Firth of Forth, Sea Area 9, 29 October 1917

Museum reference

Z.1917.54.1

Collection

Marine invertebrates

Scientific name(s)

species: Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 - Giant squid

Specimen details

Specimen form: Wet
Sex: Undetermined
Phase: Unknown

Collection place(s)

Skateraw, East Lothian, Scotland, Northern Europe

Associations

Collector: Ritchie, James, Professor, 1882 - 1958

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Ritchie, J., Occurrence of a giant squid (Architeuthis) on the Scottish coast, Scottish Naturalist (78), June 1918, 133-139

Daily Record, 2 November 1917

Heppell, David and Smith, Shelagh M., Recent Cephalopoda in the Collections of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, March 1983

On display

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