Sentence examples for oceanic squids from inspiring English sources

Spawning of oceanic squids is very poorly known.

The smaller oceanic squids probably feed primarily upon small fish, copepods, heteropods, and caridean shrimp.

In the oceanic squids the system is more efficient, with a nonreturn valve that prevents water from entering the wrong way through the funnel.

Nothing is known of the life span of the large oceanic squids, but it is presumed that giants such as Architeuthis attain their bulk only after a period of perhaps four to five years.

Inactive oceanic squids, such as some cranchiids, concentrate ions lighter than seawater in the body chamber, while others, such as Bathyteuthis, concentrate buoyant oil in the chambers associated with the digestive gland.

Childress [ 12] argued that many of the observed relationships between metabolism and depth in oceanic squids were the result of adaptation rather than phylogenetic history, because similar metabolic rates consistently coincide with depth, even across distantly related taxa.

Schools of the large oceanic squid Thysanoteuthis rhombis have been reported at Madeira.

Image taken by Kouta Muramatsu of Hokkaido University on July 25 , 2011shows the oceanic squid flying in the air in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

While the pasta lacked the oceanic flavor of squid ink, the whole dish was so lively that I didn't miss it.

Every day the little fish is late to school, and every day he has a new excuse for Miss Skate — involving treasure chests, giant squid and other oceanic inconveniences — until finally he barely wriggles out of a fisherman's net, only to have his narrow escape laughed off by everyone.

In general, oceanic elasmobranch species feed on squid and big fishes [ 9, 10], whereas the coastal and benthic species feed on crustaceans, mollusks and small or juvenile fishes [ 11- 13].