are octopus and squid a member of the same family?
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No, not same family\n Squid, - Kingdom: Animalia\nPhylum: Mollusca\nClass: Cephalopoda\nOrder: Teuthida\nFamily: Ommastrephidae (and others)\nOctopus, - Kingdom: Animalia\nPhylum: Mollusca\nClass: Cephalopoda\nOrder: Octopoda\nFamily Octopodidae\nBUT same Class (Mollusc) and Phylum (cephalopod)\n\nThe Cephalopods ("head-foot") are the mollusk class Cephalopoda characterized by bilateral body symmetry, a prominent head, and a modification of the mollusk foot, a muscular hydrostat, into the form of arms or tentacles. Teuthology, a branch of malacology, is the study of cephalopods.
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A purple gallinule is purple. Also an octopus or squid can make itself purple by changing it's color and maybe a chameleon too. But if I can only go with one I'll say the Purple Monarch Butterfly.
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ROACH, JELLY FISH, STAR FISH, CLAM, OYSTERS, FLYS, SPIDERS
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"Trilobites are arthropods (literally, ‘with jointed limbs’) so they are related to such animals as spiders, scorpions, crabs and insects. Scientists do not agree on which of the modern arthropod groups are the closest living relatives of trilobites, partly because trilobite fossil remains do not preserve sufficient anatomical detail to allow complete comparison with living arthropods."\n\nIt is incorrect to suggets that hoseshoe crabs are THE closest living relative of trilobites. That answer is just plain wrong, and can easily be seen to be wrong by simply pointing out that trilobites and horseshoe crabs lived side by side for millions of years. Horseshoe crab larvae are referred to as trilobite larvae because they have three lobes, hence tri-lobe, nothing whatsover to do with any relationship to the group referred to as trilobites.\n\nHorseshoe crabs belong to the same group as spider and mites. As such it is imposible for them to be any more closely related to trilobites than spiders are. It is commonly belived that chelicerates, the group containing spiders, scorpions and, yes, horseshoe crabs, are the closest living reltive of the trilobites, but horsehsoe crabs are no more closely realted to trilobites than scorpions are.
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i have 2 legs\n\nand octopus have 8 Tentacles\n\n\nlogically it has 6 legs......2 points for each vowel
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"Females release thousands of transparent eggs in jelly-like strands into the water. \n Take a close look at a developing squid, or paralarva. It looks like a miniature adult. \n\nMales produce long tubes, or spermataphores, filled with millions of sperm. Most species have a modified arm for depositing these in or on the female. This spermataphore cluster is implanted on the head of a female (Abraliopsis sp.). No wonder scientists are puzzled as to how squid eggs get fertilized!"
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What you're looking for is Krill, they're tiny arthropods in the same family as shrimp.
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Calamari is the italian word for squid. The 'i' is never silent; after all when was the last time you ate spaghett......??
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A museum in Britain recently got a hold of a fairly well preserved one about 28 feet long.  I believe larger ones have been found, and based on (spikes?  sucker marks? beaks of eaten squid?) measured on sperm whales, truly humongous ones are out there.  \n\nA Japanese team got several photographs of a live one, a major first. The National Geo article linked to below has more history on giant squid observations.\n\nThey are hard to find because they live very deep and the oceans are large to boot.  Something like that is going to need a large hunting area so there won't be a huge concentration of them.
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On land, the elephant.  In the sea, the whale shark, however, more and more evidence is pointing towards giant squid that, until recently, was thought to be just a myth.
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Arthropoda: ant, spider\nChordata: crow, turtle, salmon\nMollusca: snail, octopus
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hmmm... how would octupi kiss?\nIf they did it by touching tentacles, then there'd be 64 different ways (8^2), or if they touched all 8 tentacles, then there'd be 40320 different ways (8!).....(assuming they could tie themselves up a little bit!)...\nOr, maybe like the person above suggested, there's just one way...beak to beak!
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Are you asking if that's really what they call themselves?  If so yea, marines are jarheads, navy is squids, and I honestly don't know the other.
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None - Cuttlefish have tentacles.\n\nCuttlefish are marine animals of the order Sepiida belonging to the Cephalopoda class (which also include squids, octopuses and nautilus). Although the name suggests it, cuttlefish are not fish, but molluscs.
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After seeing the brand-new first photos of the giant squid alive in its habitat, I agree with you that there are resemblances...\n\nWell, both fly...\nI mean one flies under water, \nwhich I guess technically would be swimming.\n\nDid you know they're jet powered, squid that is,\nthey take in water at the front and expel water \nbehind for propulsion just like jet planes work in air. \nEagles take in air through their skin and feathers,\nbut they don't expel it for propulsion,bad choice there.\n\nAnd they both have feathers, except the squid doesn't.\n\nThey DO both have BEAKS!\nNow that can't be overlooked.\n\nAnd they both have tentacles, but the eagle's tentacles have bones in them are are called "legs".\n\nHmmm... I could go on, but I put it to you that \nNOONE has ever seen a Giant Squid and a Bald Eagle\nin the same place. One lives deep in the ocean and one in the sky. Perhaps the Bald Eagle, proud symbol of America, has had a secret identity all this time?\n\nWell, with the new squid photos I think the jig is up.
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The Squid.  The squid's eye is 10 percent of it's body.
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I don't see any reason why a giant squid or colossal squid would pass up the opportunity to chow down on a tasty meal-sized package like a human should they encounter one.  Especially since humans don't swim very quickly or have any other defensive adaptations to protect them from giant squid.\n\nSince most cephalopods are insatiably curious and also active predators, I'd be more surprised if they didn't try to take a bite if they could.\n\nSo we're probably very lucky that these critters seem to stay in the ocean depths, and don't come up to the surface at night.