The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·123962SpeciesMollusca152 field observations
  1. Animals
  2. ›Molluscs
  3. ›Cephalopods
  4. ›Octopuses, Squids, and Cuttlefishes
  5. ›Squids and Cuttlefishes
  6. ›Pelagic Squids
  7. ›Cranch Squids and Flying Squids
  8. ›Flying Squids
  9. ›Ommastrephinae
  10. ›Dosidicus
Humboldt Squid
Plate 1 of 11. (c) Chris Brown, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Chris Brown · via iNaturalist

Humboldt Squid

Dosidicus gigas

The Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), also known as jumbo squid, jumbo flying squid, pota, or diablo rojo, is a large, predatory squid living in the waters of the Humboldt Current in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is the only species of the genus Dosidicus of the subfamily Ommastrephinae, family Ommastrephidae.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Dosidicus gigas in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 123962.