As a little continuation to the "Cephalopods in estuaries" discussion of a
while back, my colleague Rhys Bullman passed on a large squid that had
washed up at Bo'ness, in the lower Forth Estuary, east Scotland. It's in
great condition, is 1.038 kg wet weight and 440mm mantle length; keying it
out in Hayward & Ryland's Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe
identifies it as Loligo vulgaris but this species is referred to as only
being found on the southern and western coasts of the UK, not the east.
A freak occurrence, loss overboard from a squid vessel, or something else?
Marin
Marin Greenwood
Forth Estuary Ecology Group
Institute of Biological Sciences
Stirling
FK9 4LA
UK
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