loligo


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Noun1.Loligo - somewhat flattened cylindrical squidloligo - somewhat flattened cylindrical squid
squid - widely distributed fast-moving ten-armed cephalopod mollusk having a long tapered body with triangular tail fins
genus Loligo - squids
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For Graneledone boreopacifica and Loligo vulgaris reynaudii, the evidence was supported by histological and oocyte diameter-frequency analysis (Melo & Sauer 1999, Bello 2006).
Bycatch reduction in Massachusetts inshore squid (Loligo pealeii) trawl fisheries.
Ocean climate effects on the relative abundance of shortfinned (Illex illecebrosus) and long finned (Loligo pealei) squid in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
An investigation from our research team that included the determination of Cd concentrations in the digestive gland of squids from the Brazilian coast [4] has verified that Cd levels were 20 times higher in Illex argentinus (Family Ommastrephidae) than in Loligo plei (Family Loliginidae).
Erratic behavior of copepods tempts juvenile Loligo opalescens to hunt, thus affecting the learning of hunting skills during the early life phase of this squid, a time of limited duration for the critical period of imprinting (Chenetai, 1996).
Sexual segregation in ontogenetic migrations by the squid Loligo gahi around the Falkland Islands.
Squid species targeted was Loligo reynaudi Vas-trap: a popular and lively Afrikaner folk dance.
For example, DFA has been applied to estimate underlying common trends among multiple time series of catch per unit effort of Norwegian lobster Nephrops norvegicus (Zuur et al., 2003b) and squid Loligo forbesi (Zuur and Pierce, 2004) with sea surface temperature and North Atlantic Oscillation index as the explanatory variables.