List of giant squid specimens and sightings

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The earliest known photograph of an intact giant squid, showing the arms, tentacles and buccal region of the head (including beak) of a specimen from Logy Bay, Newfoundland (#30 on this list), draped over Reverend Moses Harvey's sponge bath, November or December 1873. Harvey wrote in his journal: "I knew that I had in my possession what all the savants in the world did not […] what the museums in the world did not contain […] A photograph could not lie and would silence the gainsayers". The photograph includes contemporaneous annotations by zoologist Addison Emery Verrill, including a 1-foot scale bar (top left) and detailed marginal notes.Template:Refn

This list of giant squid specimens and sightings is a comprehensive timeline of recorded human encounters with members of the genus Architeuthis, popularly known as giant squid. It includes animals that were caught by fishermen, found washed ashore, recovered (in whole or in part) from sperm whales and other predatory species, as well as those reliably sighted at sea. The list also covers specimens incorrectly assigned to the genus Architeuthis in original descriptions or later publications. Template:TOC limit

Background

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French corvette Alecton attempts to capture a giant squid in 1861 (#18). This incident almost certainly inspired the depiction of the giant squid in Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

History of discovery

Tales of giant squid have been common among mariners since ancient times, but the animals were long considered mythical and often associated with the kraken of Nordic legend. The giant squid did not gain widespread scientific acceptance until specimens became available to zoologists in the second half of the 19th century, beginning with the formal naming of Architeuthis dux by Japetus Steenstrup in 1857, from fragmentary Bahamian material collected two years earlier (#14 on this list).Template:Refn In the same work, Steenstrup also named a second species, Architeuthis monachus, based on a preserved beak, the only part saved from a carcass that washed ashore in Denmark in 1853 (#13). The giant squid came to public prominence in 1861 when the French corvette Alecton encountered a live animal (#18) at the surface while navigating near Tenerife. A report of the incident filed by the ship's captain was almost certainly seen by Jules Verne and adapted by him for the description of the monstrous squid in his 1870 novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas.

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The Template:Convert tentacle that Newfoundland fisherman Theophilus Picot hacked off a live animal (#29) on 26 October 1873

The giant squid's existence was established beyond doubt only in the 1870s, with the appearance of an extraordinary number of complete specimens—both dead and alive—in Newfoundland waters (beginning with #21). These were meticulously documented in a series of papers by Yale zoologist Addison Emery Verrill.Template:Refn Two of these Newfoundland specimens, both from 1873, were particularly significant as they were among the earliest to be photographed: first a single severed tentacle—hacked off a live animal as it "attacked" a fishing boat (#29)—and weeks later an intact animal in two parts (#30).Template:Refn The head and limbs of this latter specimen were famously shown draped over the sponge bath of Moses Harvey, a local clergyman, essayist, and amateur naturalist. Harvey secured and reported widely on both of these important specimens—as well as numerous others (most notably the Catalina specimen of 1877; #42)—and it was largely through his efforts that giant squid became known to North American and British zoologists.Template:Refn Recognition of Architeuthis as a real animal led to the reappraisal of earlier reports of gigantic tentacled sea creatures, with some of these subsequently being accepted as records of giant squid, the earliest stretching back to at least the 17th century.

I confess that until I saw and measured this enormous limb, I doubted the accuracy of some early observations which this specimen alone would suffice to prove worthy of confidence. The existence of gigantic cephalopods is no longer an open question. I, now, more than ever, appreciate the value of the adage: "Truth is stranger than fiction."

—Henry Lee, referring to an arm of uncertain provenance (#27) at the British Museum (Natural History) that was examined by him in May 1873, from the concluding lines of his 1875 book The Octopus; or, the "devil-fish" of fiction and of fact.

For a time in the late 19th century, almost every major specimen of which material was saved was described as a new species. In all, some twenty species names were coined. However, there is no widely agreed basis for distinguishing between the named species, and both morphological and genetic data point to the existence of a single, globally distributed species, which according to the principle of priority must be known by the earliest available name: Architeuthis dux.

It is not known why giant squid become stranded on shore, but it may be because the distribution of deep, cold water where they live is temporarily altered. Marine biologist and Architeuthis specialist Frederick Aldrich proposed that there may be a periodicity to the strandings around Newfoundland, and based on historical data suggested an average interval between mass strandings of some 30 years. Aldrich used this value to correctly predict a relatively small stranding event between 1964 and 1966 (beginning with #169). The appearance of specimens around New Zealand has been linked to the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, with multiple strandings in the Cook Strait in 1879–1880 (beginning with #47) and 1982–1984 coinciding with or immediately following extreme negative peaks of the Southern Oscillation Index. Although strandings continue to occur sporadically throughout the world, few have been as frequent as those in Newfoundland in the late 19th century.Template:Refn A notable exception was a 15-month period between 2014 and 2015, during which an unprecedented 57 specimens were recorded from Japanese coastal waters of the Sea of Japan (beginning with #563).

Though the total number of recorded giant squid specimens now runs into the hundreds, the species remains notoriously elusive and little known. Attempts to capture a glimpse of a live giant squid—described as "the most elusive image in natural history"—were mooted since at least the 1960s. Efforts intensified significantly towards the end of the century, with the launch of several multi-million-dollar expeditions in the late 1990s, though these were all unsuccessful. The first years of the 21st century saw a number of breakthroughs in live giant squid imaging that ultimately culminated in the first recordings of live animals (#548 and 549) in their natural deep-water habitat—from both a remote camera system and a crewed submersible—in July 2012. Despite these recent advances and the growing number of both specimens and recordings of live animals, the species continues to occupy a unique place in the public imagination. As Roper et al. (2015:83) wrote: "Few events in the natural world stimulate more excitement and curiosity among scientists and laymen alike than the discovery of a specimen of Architeuthis."

Distribution patterns

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Locations of the 57 giant squid specimens encountered in the Sea of Japan between January 2014 and March 2015, in what remains the largest mass appearance of this species ever recorded, from Kubodera et al. (2016). The two maps show specimens (numbered chronologically) from the two main stranding events in January–May 2014 (A; spanning #563 to 589) and September 2014–March 2015 (B; spanning #590 to 631).

Template:GeoGroup The genus Architeuthis has a cosmopolitan or bi-subtropical distribution, and carcasses are known to wash ashore on every continent except Antarctica. The greatest numbers of specimens have been recorded in: the North Atlantic around Newfoundland (historically), northern Spain (more recently), Norway, the northern British Isles, and the archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira; the South Atlantic off South Africa and Namibia; the northwestern Pacific off Japan (especially more recently); and the southwestern Pacific around New Zealand and Australia.

The vast majority of specimens are of oceanic origin, including marginal seas broadly open to adjacent ocean, especially the Tasman Sea and Sea of Japan, but also the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, among others. A handful are known from the far western Mediterranean Sea (#383, 447, 498, and 550), but these records do not necessarily indicate that the Mediterranean falls within the natural range of the giant squid, as the specimens may have been transported there by inflowing Atlantic water. Similarly, giant squid are unlikely to naturally occur in the North Sea owing to its shallow depth (but see #107 and 113, the only known English strandings). They are generally absent from equatorial and high polar latitudes (but see #215 and 249 from equatorial Atlantic waters, and specimens from northern Norway or #102 from the edge of the Arctic Circle off western Greenland).

Total number of specimens

According to Guerra et al. (2006), 592 confirmed giant squid specimens were known as of the end of 2004. Of these, 306 came from the Atlantic Ocean, 264 from the Pacific Ocean, 20 from the Indian Ocean, and 2 from the Mediterranean Sea. The figures for specimens collected in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans further broke down as follows: 148 in the northeastern Atlantic, 126 in the northwestern Atlantic, 26 in the southeastern Atlantic, 6 in the southwestern Atlantic, 43 in the northeastern Pacific, 28 in the northwestern Pacific, 10 in the southeastern Pacific, and 183 in the southwestern Pacific.

Guerra & González (2009) reported that the total number of recorded giant squid specimens stood at 624. Guerra et al. (2011) gave an updated figure of 677 specimens (see table below). Paxton (2016a) put the total at around 700 as of 2015, of which Template:Circa 460 had been measured in some way. This number has increased substantially in recent years, with 57 specimens recorded from the Sea of Japan over an extraordinary 15-month period in 2014–2015 (beginning with #563). The giant squid nevertheless remains a rarely encountered animal, especially considering its wide distribution and large size, with Richard Ellis writing that "each giant squid that washes up or is taken from the stomach of a sperm whale is still an occasion for a teuthological celebration".

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Giant squid at the surface with an approaching ship in the background, from a painting by Herbert B. Judy, 1905. Specimens found stranded or floating at the surface constitute almost 50% of all records from the Atlantic Ocean (see table).

Records of giant squid specimens sorted by region and method of capture (from Guerra et al., 2011)

Region	Number of specimens	% of total	Found stranded or floating (%)	From fishing (%)	From predators (%)	Method of capture unknown (%)
NE Atlantic	152	22.5	49	31	15	5
NW Atlantic	148	21.9	61	30	1	8
SE Atlantic	60*	8.9	10	60	17	13
SW Atlantic	6	0.9	50	16	1	33
NE Pacific	43	6.4	7	56	30	7
NW Pacific	30*	4.4	30	35	30	5
SE Pacific	10	1.5	90	10	0	0
SW Pacific	183	27.0	12	41	42	5
Indian Ocean	33**	4.8	6	94	0	0
W Mediterranean	3	0.4	100	0	0	0
Equatorial/tropical	9	1.3	11	44	45	0
All regions	677	100.0

* Underestimates according to Guerra et al. (2011)

** Includes records from Durban, South Africa

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"Wanted" poster issued by Frederick Aldrich on 24 August 1988. The flailing giant squid is from an illustration by Canadian wildlife artist Glen Loates, known for his naturalistic depictions of "Architeuthis in action", which were based on collaborations with Aldrich and which Richard Ellis described as "certainly the most accurate and exciting depictions of the monster ever drawn".

Procurement, preservation, and display

Preserved giant squid specimens are much sought after for both study and display. In the mid-1960s, marine biologist and giant squid expert Frederick Aldrich of the Memorial University of Newfoundland organised a "squid squad" with the intent of securing specimens for study. In the 1980s, Aldrich resorted to distributing eye-catching "Wanted" posters offering rewards for "finding and holding" specimens stranded on the Newfoundland coast, "the value being dependent on their condition". Aldrich (1991:459) wrote that "[s]uch efforts were not futile, for in the intervening years I have secured either the specimens or information on 15 animals", though according to Hoff (2003:85) the rewards went unclaimed. Largely through Aldrich's efforts, the Marine Sciences Research Laboratory at Logy Bay, Newfoundland, assembled a substantial early collection of giant squid; as of 1971, it held 8 specimens, with the remains of 3 displayed together in a tank by the main entrance.

Guerra et al. (2011:1990) estimated that around 30 giant squid were exhibited at museums and aquaria worldwide, while Guerra & Segonzac (2014:118–119) provided an updated list of 35 (21 in national museums and 14 in private institutions; see table below). The purpose-built Museo del Calamar Gigante in Luarca, Spain, had by far the largest collection on public display (4 females and 1 male), but many of the museum's 14 or so total specimens were destroyed during a storm on 2 February 2014. At least 13 specimens were exhibited in Japan as of February 2017, of which 10 had been acquired since 2013.

A number of fragmentary giant squid remains were displayed as part of "In Search of Giant Squid", a Smithsonian travelling exhibition curated by Clyde Roper that visited a dozen US museums and other educational institutions between September 2004 and August 2009. The exhibition opened its national tour at Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History, which has maintained a strong association with the giant squid from the time of the Newfoundland strandings in the 1870s. Preparations for the Peabody exhibition, overseen by site curator Eric Lazo-Wasem, uncovered giant squid material in the museum's collections that was not previously known to be extant, including original specimens from Addison Emery Verrill's time.

Architeuthis is an elusive creature. Its occasional appearance on various beaches around the world has provided hardly more than a glimpse of its majestic and intimidating appearance, and hauling it out of the water in a trawl does it no justice either. Papier-mâché or fiberglass models have given us a sense of its size and shape, but they have not captured its mystery and vitality. The spirit of Architeuthis may well be uncapturable; at least no museum has even come close to this fabulous creature—the only living animal for which the term sea monster is truly applicable.

—Richard Ellis, from the closing remarks of his 1997 article "The models of Architeuthis"

Template:Sister project In the late 19th century, the giant squid's popular appeal and desirability to museums—but scarcity of preserved specimens—spawned a long tradition of "life-sized" models that continues to the present day. Verrill's description of the famous Catalina specimen of 1877 (#42), which he personally examined in New York City the same year, served as the basis for the earliest models.Template:Refn The second Portugal Cove specimen, from 1881 (#60), was probably also used as a reference, as it was seen by Verrill shortly before he began modelling. Following Verrill's design, his draughtsman James Henry Emerton built the very first giant squid model for the Peabody Museum of Natural History in 1883. A second, near-identical model was soon delivered to the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, and a third was made for the International Fisheries Exhibition, held in London in 1883. The Verrill and Emerton models were followed by six similar examples, again based on the Catalina specimen, produced by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, New York, of which two were sold internationally: to London's Natural History Museum and the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. The original Peabody Museum model was discarded around 1964 and replaced two years later by one based on both the Logy Bay specimen of 1873 (#30) and on several Newfoundland specimens from the 1960s, particularly the one found off Conche in October 1964 (#169).

Real giant squid specimens have traditionally been preserved in either solutions of alcohols (particularly ethanol and isopropyl alcohol) or in formalin. More recently, concerns about the fire and health risks posed by these substancesTemplate:Refn have led to alternative preservative fluids being explored, such as propylene glycol (#254), glycerol (#495), and the hydrofluoroether Novec 7100. Additionally, methods such as plastination have made it possible to display authentic giant squid specimens in a dry state. A giant squid was first plastinated in 2000 and this specimen, nicknamed "Wheke" (#429), has been on display at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris since 2008; two further specimens were plastinated in 2004, as were various parts of a 2015 specimen from Japan (#609). Several other individuals have been prepared for display by more conventional drying methods, such as hard curing (e.g. #598, 603, and 617), though this necessarily results in greatly shrunken specimens. At least one giant squid has been entirely embedded in acrylic, a process that rendered its flesh translucent (#632). Beginning in 2005, a specimen nicknamed "Cal" (#495) was uniquely displayed at Melbourne Aquarium encased in a 3.5-tonne block of ice (reportedly the largest man-made ice block in the world); it was turned into a conventional wet specimen several years later. Additionally, a number of other specimens have been temporarily placed on public display in a frozen or chilled state (e.g. #564, 585, 592, 603, 662, 669, 675, 677, 679, and 680).

Partial list of giant squid specimens on public display as of 2014 (from Guerra & Segonzac, 2014:118–119)

Institution	Location	Country	Type	Specimen(s)
American Museum of Natural History	New York City, New York	United States	national museum	1 female (#385)
Auckland University of Technology	Auckland, North Island	New Zealand	private	1 female (200 kg)
Aula del Mar Málaga / Museo Alborania	Málaga, Andalusia	Spain	private	1 female (#383)
Centro de Gestión del Medio Marino del Estrecho (Regional Government of Andalusia)	Algeciras, Andalusia	Spain	private	1 female (90 kg)
Deep Sea World	North Queensferry, Scotland	United Kingdom	private	1 female
Florida Museum of Natural History	Gainesville, Florida	United States	national museum	1 female (#542)
Georgia Aquarium	Atlanta, Georgia	United States	private	1 female (#240)
Iziko South African Museum	Cape Town, Western Cape	South Africa	national museum	1 female (1.8 m ML)
Kaikoura Marine Centre and Aquarium	Kaikōura, South Island	New Zealand	private	1 female (#551)
Kelly Tarlton's Sea Life Aquarium	Auckland, North Island	New Zealand	private	1 female
Melbourne Museum	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	national museum	1 female (12 m TL; 170 kg)
Mote Aquarium	Sarasota, Florida	United States	private	1 female (#407)
Museo de Historia Natural (Sociedade Galega de Historia Natural)	Ferrol, Galicia	Spain	national museum	1 female (90 kg)
Museo del Calamar Gigante	Luarca, Asturias	Spain	national museum	4 females; 1 male
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales	Madrid, Community of Madrid	Spain	national museum	1 female (#447)
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle	Paris, Île-de-France	France	national museum	1 female (#429)
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa	Wellington, North Island	New Zealand	national museum	1 female
Museu Oceanográfico do Portinho da Arrábida	Setúbal, Lisboa Region	Portugal	national museum	1 male (mature; 2 m TL; 60 kg)
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research	Auckland, North Island	New Zealand	private	1 female
National Marine Aquarium	Plymouth, England	United Kingdom	private	1 female (#463)
National Museum of Natural History	Washington, D.C.	United States	national museum	1 female (13 m TL); 1 male (6 m TL)
National Museum of Nature and Science	Taito City, Tokyo	Japan	national museum	1 female (#379)
National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh, Scotland	United Kingdom	national museum	1 female
Natural History Museum	London, England	United Kingdom	national museum	1 female (#487)
Naturalis Biodiversity Center	Leiden, South Holland	Netherlands	private	1 male (#260)
Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium	Motobu, Okinawa Prefecture	Japan	private	1 female (#349)
Queensland Museum (ex Melbourne Aquarium)	Melbourne, Victoria	Australia	private	1 female (#495)
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery	Hobart, Tasmania	Australia	national museum	2 females (#466 and 514)
The Rooms (ex Memorial University of Newfoundland)	St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador	Canada	private	1 female (#254)

Reported sizes

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Giant squid found at Ranheim in Trondheimsfjord, Norway, on 2 October 1954 (#136), being examined by Professors Erling Sivertsen and Svein Haftorn. This specimen measured 9.24 m in total length and had a mantle length of 1.79 m.

Giant squid size—long a subject of both popular debate and academic inquiry—has often been misreported and exaggerated. Reports of specimens reaching or even exceeding Template:Convert in total length are widespread,Template:Refn but no animals approaching this size have been scientifically documented in recent times, despite the hundreds of specimens available for study. The Template:Convert "Thimble Tickle specimen" (#45) reported by Verrill (1880a:191) is often cited as the largest giant squid ever recorded,Template:Refn and the Template:Convert (or Template:Convert) specimen described by Kirk (1888) as Architeuthis longimanus (#62)—a strangely proportioned animal that has been much commented on—is sometimes cited as the longest. It is now thought likely that such lengths were achieved by great lengthening of the two long feeding tentacles, analogous to stretching elastic bands, or resulted from inadequate measurement methods such as pacing.

Based on a 40-year data set of more than 50 giant squid (Architeuthis dux) specimens, Roper & Shea (2013:114) suggest an average total length (TL) at maturity of Template:Convert and a "rarely encountered maximum length" of Template:Convert. Of the nearly 100 specimens examined by Clyde Roper, the largest was "46 feet (14 m) long". O'Shea & Bolstad (2008) give a maximum total length of Template:Convert for females based on the examination of more than 130 specimens, measured post mortem and relaxed, as well as beaks recovered from sperm whales (which do not exceed the size of those found in the largest complete specimens). Steve O'Shea estimated the maximum total length for males at Template:Convert. Yukhov (2014:242) gives a maximum total length of Template:Convert for the species, based on records from the southern hemisphere; Remeslo (2011) gives Template:Convert. McClain et al. (2015) regard a Template:Convert specimen from Asturias, Spain (#480), as the "longest scientifically verified" and "largest recorded and well-preserved specimen in the contemporary, peer-reviewed literature". Charles G. M. Paxton performed a statistical analysis using literature records of giant squid specimens and concluded that "squid with a conservative TL of Template:Convert would seem likely based on current data", but the study has been heavily criticised by experts in the field.

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Frequency distribution of total length, mantle length, and mass in Architeuthis dux, from McClain et al. (2015) (see also linear regressions). The Template:Convert extreme outlier (#22) is from an estimate mentioned in Verrill (1880a:181) and is unlikely to be accurate; the next most massive individual in the data set was only Template:Convert and 95% of specimens were below Template:Convert. Similarly, 95% of individuals had recorded mantle lengths below Template:Convert and total lengths below Template:Convert.

O'Shea & Bolstad (2008) give a maximum mantle length (ML) of Template:Convert based on the examination of more than 130 specimens, as well as beaks recovered from sperm whales (which do not exceed the size of those found in the largest complete specimens), though there are recent scientific records of specimens that slightly exceed this size (such as #371, a Template:Convert ML female captured off Tasmania, Australia; see also #647, with an estimated 2.15–3.06 m ML). Remeslo (2011) and Yukhov (2014:248) give a maximum mantle length of Template:Convert for females from southern waters. Questionable records of up to Template:Convert ML can be found in older literature. Paxton (2016a) accepts a maximum recorded ML of Template:Convert, based on the Lyall Bay specimen (#47) reported by Kirk (1880:312), but this record has been called into question as the gladius of this specimen (which should approximate the mantle length) was said to be only Template:Convert long.

Including the head and arms but excluding the tentacles (standard length), the species very rarely exceeds Template:Convert according to O'Shea & Bolstad (2008). Paxton (2016a) considers Template:Convert to be the greatest reliably measured SL, based on a specimen (#46) reported by Verrill (1880a:192), and considers specimens of Template:Convert SL or more to be "very probable", but these conclusions have been criticised by giant squid experts.

O'Shea (2003b) put the maximum weight of female giant squid at Template:Convert, based on the examination of some 105 specimens as well as beaks recovered from sperm whales (which do not exceed the size of those found in the largest complete specimens; some of the heaviest recent specimens include #491 and 524). Giant squid are sexually size dimorphic, with the maximum weight for males estimated at Template:Convert, though heavier specimens have occasionally been reported (see #412 for a Template:Convert specimen). Similarly, Remeslo (2011) and Yukhov (2014:248) give maximum masses of Template:Convert and Template:Convert for females and males, respectively, based on records from southern latitudes. Roper & Jereb (2010:121) give a maximum weight of up to Template:Convert, and "possibly greater". Discredited weights of as much as a tonne (Template:Convert) or more are not uncommon in older literature (see e.g. #22, 114, and 117).

The giant squid and the distantly related colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) are recognised as having by far the largest eyes of any living animal, and comparable to the largest eyes known from the fossil record. Historical reports of "dinner plate–sized" eyes (e.g. #37) are largely corroborated by modern measurements, with an accepted maximum diameter of at least Template:Convert and a Template:Convert pupil (based on #248).

Species identifications

Undoubtedly several imperfectly distinguished forms have been included in the earlier anecdotal records of Architeuthis. Moreover, specimens of Architeuthis (the Giant Squid par excellence), the smaller Sthenoteuthis, and possibly Ommatostrephes have been indiscriminately described as "Giant Squids."

—Guy Coburn Robson, from his description of Architeuthis clarkei, a species he erected in 1933 based on a carcass (#107) that washed ashore in Scarborough, England, earlier that year

The taxonomy of the giant squid genus Architeuthis has not been entirely resolved. Lumpers and splitters may propose as many as eight species or as few as one, with most authors recognising either one cosmopolitan species (A. dux) or three geographically disparate species: A. dux from the Atlantic, A. martensi from the North Pacific, and A. sanctipauli from the Southern Ocean. Historically, some twenty species names (not counting new combinations) and eight genus names have been applied to architeuthids (see Type specimens). No genetic or physical basis for distinguishing between the named species has been proposed, though specimens from the North Pacific do not appear to reach the maximum dimensions seen in giant squid from other areas. There may also be regional differences in the relative proportions of the tentacles and their sucker counts. The mitogenomic analysis of Winkelmann et al. (2013) supports the existence of a single, globally distributed species (A. dux). The same conclusion was reached by Förch (1998) on the basis of morphological data.

The literature on giant squid has been further muddied by the frequent misattribution of various squid specimens to the genus Architeuthis, often based solely on their large size. In the academic literature alone, such misidentifications encompass at least the oegopsid families Chiroteuthidae (misidentification #[8]—Asperoteuthis lui), Cranchiidae (#[5] and [6]—Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni), Ommastrephidae (#[1]—Sthenoteuthis pteropus and #[2]—Dosidicus gigas), Onychoteuthidae (#[7], [11], and [13]—Onykia robusta), and Psychroteuthidae (#[4]—indeterminate species), with the familial identity of one record remaining unresolved (#[3]). Many more misidentifications have been propagated in the popular press, involving—among others—Megalocranchia cf. fisheri (#[12]; Cranchiidae), Thysanoteuthis rhombus (#[10]; Thysanoteuthidae), and an egg mass of Nototodarus gouldi (#[9]; Ommastrephidae). This situation is further confused by the occasional usage of the common name 'giant squid' in reference to large squids of other genera.Template:Refn

List of giant squid

Sourcing and progenitors

File:Mike Sweeney and Clyde F. E. Roper Examining Giant Squid Specimen.jpg

Michael J. Sweeney (left) and Clyde F. E. Roper (center) with a giant squid (#240) being prepared for display at the National Museum of Natural History in 1983. Sweeney compiled the list on which the present one is based; Roper, one of the foremost experts on Architeuthis, wrote its introduction.

The present list generally follows "Records of Architeuthis Specimens from Published Reports", compiled by zoologist Michael J. Sweeney of the Smithsonian Institution and including records through 1999, with additional information taken from other sources (see Full citations). While Sweeney's list is sourced almost entirely from the scientific literature, many of the more recent specimens are supported by reports from the news media, including newspapers and magazines, radio and television broadcasts, and online sources.

Earlier efforts to compile a list of all known giant squid encounters throughout history include those of marine writer and artist Richard Ellis. Ellis's first list, published as an appendix to his 1994 work Monsters of the Sea, was probably the first such compilation to appear in print and was described in the book's table of contents as "the most complete and accurate list of the historical sightings and strandings of Architeuthis ever attempted". Ellis's much-expanded second list, an appendix to his 1998 book The Search for the Giant Squid, comprised 166 entries spanning four and a half centuries, from 1545 to 1996. Records which appear in Ellis's 1998 list but are not found in Sweeney & Roper's 2001 list have a citation to Ellis (1998a)—in the page range 257–265—in the 'Additional references' column of the main table.Template:Refn

In addition to these global specimen lists, a number of regional compilations have been published, including Clarke & Robson (1929:156), Rees (1950:39–40) and Collins (1998) for the British Isles; Sivertsen (1955) for Norway; Aldrich (1991) for Newfoundland; Okiyama (1993) for the Sea of Japan; Förch (1998:105–110) for New Zealand; Guerra et al. (2006:258–259) for Asturias, Spain; [TMAG] (2007:18–21) for Tasmania, Australia; and Roper et al. (2015) for the western North Atlantic. Works exhaustively enumerating all recorded specimens from a particular mass appearance event include those of Verrill (1882c) for Newfoundland in 1870–1881 and Kubodera et al. (2016) for the Sea of Japan in 2014–2015. Though the number of authenticated giant squid records now runs into the hundreds, individual specimens still generate considerable scientific interest and continue to have scholarly papers unto themselves.

Scope and inclusion criteria

The list includes records of giant squid (genus Architeuthis) either supported by a physical specimen (or parts thereof) or—in the absence of any saved material—where at least one of the following conditions is satisfied: the specimen was examined by an expert prior to disposal and thereby positively identified as a giant squid; a photograph or video recording of the specimen was taken, on the basis of which it was assigned to the genus Architeuthis by a recognised authority; or the record was accepted as being that of a giant squid by a contemporary expert or later authority for any other reason, such as the perceived credibility of the source or the verisimilitude of the account.

File:Giant squid attacking boat.jpg

Nineteenth century engraving by W. A. Cranston of a giant squid attacking a boat (see #29). Only sightings deemed authentic by published experts are included in the list.

Purported sightings of giant squid lacking both physical and documentary evidence and expert appraisal are generally excluded, with the exception of those appearing in the lists of Ellis (1994a:379–384), Ellis (1998a:257–265), or Sweeney & Roper (2001) (see e.g. "attacks" of #32 and 106).Template:Refn In particular, "sea monster" sightings—many of which have been attributed to giant squid by various authors—fall short of this standard.Template:Refn Compositing and other forms of photo manipulation have been used to perpetrate hoaxes involving giant squid and these are occasionally circulated as records of actual news events, often accompanied by fictional background stories. Such records are likewise excluded, as are speculative misidentifications with no scientific basis.

The earliest surviving records of very large squid date to classical antiquity and the writings of Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, and possibly Antipater of Sidon. But in the absence of detailed descriptions or surviving remains, it is not possible to assign these to the giant squid genus Architeuthis with any confidence, and they are therefore not included in this list (in any case, giant squid records from the Mediterranean are exceedingly rare). Basque and Portuguese cod fishermen observed what were likely giant squid carcasses in the waters of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland as early as the 16th century, but conclusive evidence is similarly lacking. The earliest specimens identifiable as true giant squid are generally accepted to be ones from the early modern period in the 17th and 18th centuries, and possibly as far back as the 16th century (#1).

All developmental stages from hatchling to mature adult are included. In the literature there is a single anecdotal account of a giant squid "egg case", but this is excluded due to a lack of substantiating evidence (see misidentification #[9] for possible egg mass later determined to be that of the arrow squid, Nototodarus gouldi). Indirect evidence of giant squid—such as sucker scars found on sperm whales—falls outside the scope of this list.

Specimens misassigned to the genus Architeuthis in print publications or news reports are included, but are clearly highlighted as misidentifications.

List of specimens

Records are listed chronologically in ascending order and numbered accordingly. This numbering is not meant to be definitive but rather to provide a convenient means of referring to individual records. Specimens incorrectly assigned to the genus Architeuthis are counted separately, their numbers enclosed in square brackets, and are highlighted in pink (Template:Color box). Records that cover multiple whole specimens, or remains necessarily originating from multiple individuals (e.g. two lower beaks), have the 'Material cited' cell highlighted in grey (Template:Color box). Animals that were photographed or filmed while alive (all from the 21st century) have the 'Nature of encounter' cell highlighted in yellow (Template:Color box). Where a record falls into more than one of these categories, a combination of shadings is used. Where an image of a specimen is available, this is indicated by a camera symbol (📷) that links to the image.

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Giant squid (Architeuthis dux), modified from an illustration by Addison Emery Verrill (Verrill, 1880a: pl. 20; based on #42), showing the exceptionally long feeding tentacles, which are often missing or damaged in recovered specimens. Some of the more extreme published giant squid measurements have been attributed to artificial lengthening of these tentacles. Almost the entire bulk of the animal—that is, the mantle, head, and arms—takes up less than half of its total length; the absence of the tentacles, therefore, has a great effect on the animal's total length but very little on its mass.

• Date – Date on which the specimen was first captured, found, or observed. Where this is unknown, the date on which the specimen was first reported is listed instead and noted as such. All times are local.
• Location – Area where the specimen was encountered, including coordinates and depth information where available. Given as it appears in the cited reference(s), except where additional information is provided in square brackets. The quadrant of a major ocean in which the specimen was found is given in curly brackets (e.g. {NEA}; see Oceanic sectors).
• Template:Vanchor – Circumstances in which the specimen was recovered or observed. Given as they appear in the cited reference(s), although "washed ashore" encompasses all stranded animals.
• Identification – Species- or genus-level taxon to which the specimen was assigned. Given as it appears in the cited reference(s). Listed chronologically if specimen was re-identified. These designations are primarily of historical interest as most authorities now recognise a single species of giant squid: Architeuthis dux. Where only a vernacular name has been applied to the specimen (e.g. "giant squid" or a non-English equivalent), this is given instead.
• Template:Vanchor – Original specimen material that was recovered or observed. "Entire" encompasses all more-or-less complete specimens. Names of anatomical features are retained from original sources (e.g. "jaws" may be given instead of the preferred "beak", or "body" instead of "mantle"). The specimen's state of preservation is also given, where known, and any missing parts enumerated (the tentacles, arm tips, reddish skin and eyes are the parts most often missing in stranded specimens, owing to their delicate nature and/or preferential targeting by scavengers).
• Material saved – Material that was kept after examination and not discarded (if any). Information may be derived from outdated sources; material may no longer be extant even if stated as such.
• Sex – Sex and sexual maturity of the specimen.
• Size and measurements – Data relating to measurements and counts. Abbreviations used are based on standardised acronyms in teuthology (see Measurements), with the exception of several found in older references. Measurements are given as they appear in the cited reference(s), with both arithmetic precision and original units preserved (metric conversions are shown alongside imperial measurements), though some of the more extreme lengths and weights found in older literature have since been discredited.
• Repository – Institution in which the specimen material is deposited (based on cited sources; may not be current), including accession numbers where available. Institutional acronyms are those defined by Leviton et al. (1985) and Leviton & Gibbs (1988) (see Repositories). Where the acronym is unknown, the full repository name is listed. Type specimens, such as holotypes or syntypes, are identified as such in boldface. If an author has given a specimen a unique identifying number (e.g. Verrill specimen No. 28), this is included as well, whether or not the specimen is extant.
• Main references – The most important sources, typically ones that provide extensive data and/or analysis on a particular specimen (often primary sources). Presented in author–date parenthetical referencing style, with page numbers included where applicable (those in square brackets refer either to unpaginated works or English translations of originally non-English works; see Full citations). Only the first page of relevant coverage is given, except where this is discontinuous. Any relevant figures ("figs.") and plates ("pls.") are enumerated.
• Template:Vanchor – References of lesser importance or primacy, either because they provide less substantive information on a given record (often secondary sources), or else because they are not easily obtainable or possibly even extant (e.g. old newspaper articles, personal correspondence, and television broadcasts) but nonetheless mentioned in more readily accessible published works (see Full citations).
• Notes – Miscellaneous information, often including persons and vessels involved in the specimen's recovery and subsequent handling, and any dissections, preservation work or scientific analyses carried out on the specimen. Where animals have been recorded while alive this is also noted. Material not referable to the genus Architeuthis, as well as specimens on public display, are both highlighted in bold (as "Non-architeuthid" and "On public display", respectively), though the latter information may no longer be current.

The total number of giant squid records listed across this page and successive lists is , though the number of individual animals covered is greater (the additional number exceeding 250) as some records encompass multiple specimens (indicated in grey). Additionally, 13 records relate to specimens misidentified as giant squid (indicated in pink).

#	Date	Location	Nature of encounter	Identification	Material cited	Material saved	Sex	Size and measurements	Repository	Main references	Additional references	Notes
1 (📷)	Template:Circa 1546Template:Refn	Øresund, near Malmö, Denmark–Norway [since 1658 Malmö has been part of Sweden] {NEA}	Found washed ashore; "caught live"	"sea monk"; Architeuthis monachus Steenstrup in Harting, 1860; Jenny Haniver made from a skate; Squatina squatina (angelshark)	Entire?	Undetermined		?WL: ≈3 m		Hamer (1546:[1], fig.); Belon (1553:38, fig.); Rondelet (1554:492, fig.); Belon (1555:32, fig.); Lycosthenes (1557:609, fig.); Gessner (1558:519, fig.); Rondelet (1558:361, fig.); Sluperius (1572:"89", 105, fig.); Vedel (1575); Huitfeldt ([1595]:1545); Gessner (1604:438, fig.); [[#Stephaniusc1650|Stephanius ([[[:Template:Circa]] 1650]:344)]]; Steenstrup (1855a:63, 3 figs.); Roeleveld & Knudsen (1980:293, 3 figs.); Ellis (1998a:60, fig.); Paxton & Holland (2005:39, fig. 1)	records of Björn Jónsson á Skarðsá;Template:Refn Scheuchzer (1716:153); Holberg (1733:379); Lönnberg (1891:36); Nordgård (1928:71); Tambs-Lyche (1946:288); Carrington (1957:58, fig.); Muus (1959:170); Russell & Russell (1975:94); Strauss (1975:393, fig.); Aldrich (1980:55); Roeleveld (N.d.)	Contemporaneously regarded as a "sea monk". Drawings of animal sent by Christian III of Denmark to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (then in Spain) sometime between 1545 and 1550; specimen well known across Europe. Mentioned in the writings of 16th century naturalists Pierre Belon, Guillaume Rondelet, and Conrad Gesner (in his encyclopedic Historia Animalium), though giant squid identity first proposed by Japetus Steenstrup in lecture on 26 November 1854. Paxton & Holland (2005:39) concluded that the specimen "was unlikely to have been a giant squid [...] The most likely alternative suspect would be the angelshark Squatina squatina". The similar sea bishop has also been interpreted as a giant squid carcass or else a Jenny Haniver made from a skate.
2	autumn 1639	Thingøre Sand, Nordresyssel (or Thingøresand, Hunevandsyssel), Iceland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire	One arm		BL+HL: ≈Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert; TL: ≈Template:Convert; BC: ≈Template:Convert	Thingøre monastery; "museum at Copenhagen" (ZMUC?)	[[#Jonssonc1645|Jónsson ([[[:Template:Circa]] 1645]:238)]]; Ólafsson (1772:716); Steenstrup (1849:950/[9]); Steenstrup (1898:425/[272]); Ellis (1998a:65)	Packard (1873:87); Verrill (1875b:84); Robson (1933:691); Muus (1959:170); Berger (2009:260)	Original Icelandic account is from the contemporaneous Annálar Björns á Skarðsá and has been translated into English.Template:Refn Crude drawing of animal mentioned by Eggert Ólafsson was lost with most of his books when his boat capsized off Iceland in 1768, leading to his death. Identified by Japetus Steenstrup as decapod cephalopod in 1849.
3 (📷)	Template:Circa 15 October 1673	Dingle-I-cosh, Kerry, Ireland {NEA}	Found floating at surface, in process of washing ashore, alive	Dinoteuthis proboscideus More, 1875; Architeuthis monachus; Ommastrephes (Architeuthis) monachus	Entire	Two arms, buccal mass, and suckers taken to Dublin		TL: ≈Template:Convert + Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert; "liver": Template:Convert	Undetermined [NMI?]; holotype of Dinoteuthis proboscideus More, 1875	[[#Anonc1673|[Anon.] (Template:Circa 1673)]]; [[#Hookeetalc1674|Hooke et al. (Template:Circa 1674:[1], fig.)]]; More (1875a:4526); Verrill (1875c:214); Tryon (1879b:185); Ellis (1998a:66); Sueur-Hermel (2017:64)	More (1875b:4571); Massy (1909:30); Ritchie (1918:137); Robson (1933:692); Rees (1950:40); Hardy (1956:285); Collins (1998:489)	Found by James Steward. Original material relating to this specimen consists of: a broadsheet printed in London with three letters (two from Thomas Hooke and one from Thomas Clear) together with a description and illustration; a fourth letter in manuscript; a broadsheet printed in Dublin to be distributed as a handbill; and an eight-page booklet printed in London with a woodcut reproduction of the illustration in the broadsheet (both originating from a painting on canvas brought to London, as it was impossible to preserve the carcass).
4	1680	Ulvangen Fjord, Alstadhoug parish, Norway {NEA}	Not stated		Entire?					Pontoppidan (1753:344)	Steenstrup (1857:184/[18]); Grieg (1933:19)
5	1770	Jutland, Denmark {NEA}						Unknown		Muss (1959)	Ellis (1998a:257)
6	27 May 1785	Grand Banks, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating at surface, dead	Architeuthis sp.				BL: Template:Convert		Cartwright (1792:44); Thomas ([1795]:183); Aldrich (1991:457)		Found during George Cartwright's sixth and final voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador. Spotted at 10 am surrounded by birds. Head broke off during retrieval. Described as "a large squid [...] when gutted, the body filled a pork barrel, and the whole of it would have filled a tierce".
7	November or December 1790	Arnarnaesvik, Modruvalle, Iceland {NEA}	Found washed ashore		Entire	None; used for cod bait		"longest tentacula": >Template:Convert; "body right from the head": Template:Convert; "so thick that a fullgrown man could hardly embrace it with his arms"		Steenstrup (1849:952/[11]); Steenstrup (1898:429/[276]); Ellis (1998a:68)	February 1792 diary of Sveinn Pálsson (in library of Icelandic Literary Society, in Copenhagen); Verrill (1875b:84); Robson (1933:691)	Called Kolkrabbe ('coal-crab') by local people. Identified by Japetus Steenstrup as decapod cephalopod in 1849.
8	1700s (reported 1795)	Freshwater Bay, near mouth of St. John's harbour, Newfoundland {NWA}	Unknown	Architeuthis sp.						Thomas ([1795]:183); Aldrich (1991:457)
9	1700s	Grand Banks, Newfoundland {NWA}	Unknown	Architeuthis sp.						Aldrich (1991:457)
10	1798	north coast of Denmark {NEA}	Not stated	"gigantic squid"				Unknown	"museum at Copenhagen" (ZMUC?)	Packard (1873:87)	Ellis (1998a:257)
11	9 January 1802	off Tasmania, Australia {SWP}	Found at surface, alive	?Loligo ["vraisemblablement du genre Calmar [Loligo, Lamarck]"]				"size of a barrel" ["grosseur d'un tonneau"]; AL: 1.9–2.2 m; AD: 18–21 cm		Péron (1807:216)	Quoy & Gaimard (1824:411); Ellis (1998a:257)	Péron (1807:216) wrote: "it rolled with noise in the midst of the waves, and its long arms, stretched out on their surface, stirred like so many enormous reptiles" (translated from the French).
12	between 1817 and 1820	Atlantic Ocean, near equator {?}	Found floating at surface	"énorme calmar"	Partial remains; "tentacles" ("tentacules") missing			WT: 100 "livres" [estimate]; WT: 200 "livres" [estimate; if complete]		Quoy & Gaimard (1824:411)	Packard (1873:88); Ellis (1998a:257)	Found at surface in calm weather. Quoy & Gaimard (1824:411) opined: "it is easy to imagine that one of these terrible molluscs could readily remove a man from a fairly large boat, but not a medium-tonnage vessel, still less tilting this vessel and endangering it, as some would like to believe" (translated from the French).
13 (📷)	December 1853	Raabjerg beach, North Jutland, coast of Skagerack, Denmark {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis monachus	Entire	Jaws only; radula discarded after poor preservation; jaws cut out; portion used for bait; remainder buried after 2 days		WT: 80–85 kg; jaw measurements Steenstrup (1898:423/[270])	ZMUC catalog no. CEP-133; holotype of Architeuthis monachus Steenstrup, 1857	Steenstrup (1855b:[14]); Harting (1860:11); Steenstrup (1898:415/[258], pl. 1 figs. 1–2); Kristensen & Knudsen (1983:222)	Steenstrup (1857:[18]); Packard (1873:87); Gervais (1875:91); Verrill (1875b:84); Verrill (1880a:238, pl. 25 fig. 3); Verrill (1882c:51, pl. 12 fig. 3); Posselt (1890:144); Nordgård (1928:71)	"Architeuthis monachus" Steenstrup = nomen nudum
14 (📷)	5 November 1855	western Atlantic Ocean, near Bahamas (Template:Coord) {NWA}	Not stated; presumably found floating at surface	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857; Architeuthis titan	Various parts	Gladius, mouthparts, part of arm, several suckers, and what may be hectocotylus	Male	WL: 377 cm; AL: 1/2 whole length; beak measurements; GL: Template:Convert	ZMUC catalog no. CEP-97 (or CEP-000097) and NHMD-77320 (multiple parts, each in its own glass vessel: gladius, mouthparts, part of arm, several suckers, and what may be hectocotylus); holotype of Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857; ZMB Moll. 34798 (single sucker); piece of limb in Bergen Museum	Steenstrup (1857:[18]); Steenstrup (1882:[160]); Steenstrup (1898:413, 450/[260, 298], pls. 3–4); Tryon (1879b:186, pl. 86 fig. 388); Kristensen & Knudsen (1983:222); Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2000:273); [NHMD] (2019)	Packard (1873:87); Verrill (1875b:84); Posselt (1890:144); Toll & Hess (1981:753)	Obtained by Capt. Vilhelm Hygom. Japetus Steenstrup donated single sucker to Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, which was incorporated into collection in 1883 according to catalogue entry. Preserved in 70% ethanol.
15	December 1855	Aalbaekbugten, Denmark {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Undetermined		None		Muus (1959:170)	Posselt (1890:144)
16 (📷)	Unknown (reported 1860)	Unknown {?}	Not stated	Architeuthis dux;?Ommastrephes hartingii; Architeuthis hartingii (Verrill, 1875); nomen nudum	Jaws, buccal mass, detached arm suckers	Jaws, buccal mass, detached arm suckers		ASD: Template:Convert	Utrecht University Natural History Museum; holotype of Loligo hartingii Verrill, 1875. Harting specimen No. 1	Harting (1860:2, pl. 1); Kent (1874d:491); Verrill (1875b:85, fig. 28); Tryon (1879b:149, 184, pl. 60 figs. 194–195); Verrill (1880a:240, pl. 16 fig. 8, pl. 25 fig. 1); Verrill (1882c:52, pl. 12 figs. 1–1c); Pfeffer (1912:37)	Dell (1970:27)
17	1860 or 1861	between Hillswick and Scalloway, Shetland, Scotland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis monachus Steenstrup, 1857; Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857		Undetermined		TL: Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert; BL: ≈Template:Convert		Jeffreys (1869:124); Stephen (1944:263)	More (1875b:4571); Pfeffer (1912:26); Rees (1950:40); Collins (1998:489)
18 (📷)	30 November ?1861 [=1860 Rees & Maul]	about Template:Convert northeast of Teneriffe, Canary Islands {NEA}	Found floating at surface	Loligo bouyeri;?Ommastrephes bouyeri	Entire, decomposed	None		BL: Template:Convert	None	Bouyer (1861:1263); Crosse & Fischer (1862:135); Bouyer (1866:275, fig.); Kent (1874a:180); Verrill (1875b:86); Tryon (1879b:149, 184, pl. 59); Bourée (1912:113, fig. 108); Aldrich (1978:2); Ellis (1998a:5, 78); Heuvelmans (2003:185, figs. 95–96, 100)	Frédol (1865:314, pl. 13); Figuier (1866:464, fig. 362); Frédol (1866:362); Mangin (1868:321); Meunier (1871:245); Kent (1874d:491); Gervais (1875:93); Lee (1883:38, fig. 8); Rees & Maul (1956:266); Carrington (1957:53, pl. 3b); Muntz (1995:19, fig. 11); Lagrange (2009:19)	Observed only by officers of the French gunboat Alecton; sketch made. A report of the incident filed by the ship's lieutenant was almost certainly seen by Jules Verne and adapted by him for the description of the monstrous squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Iconography discussed by Lagrange (2009).
19	1862	North Atlantic {NEA/NWA}						Unknown		Crosse & Fischer (1862)	Ellis (1998a:258)
[1] (📷)	Unknown; 1870?	Cape Sable, Nova Scotia, Canada {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis megaptera Verrill, 1878 [=Sthenoteuthis pteropus (Steenstrup, 1855)]	Entire	Entire		BL: Template:Convert; BL+HL: Template:Convert; EL: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert; FW: Template:Convert; FL: Template:Convert; extensive additional measurements	NSMC catalog no. 1870-Z-2; YPM catalog nos. IZ 017932 Template:Webarchive (sucker) & IZ 017713; holotype of Architeuthis megaptera Verrill, 1878; Verrill specimen No. 21 ("Cape Sable specimen")	Verrill (1878:207); Tryon (1879b:187); Verrill (1880a:193, pl. 21); Verrill (1882c:17, pl. 16 figs. 1–9)		Non-architeuthid. Collected by J.M. Jones.
20	September 1870	Waimarama, east coast of Wellington, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore		Entire	Beak		BL+HL: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert	In Kirk's possession; Kirk specimen No. 1	Kirk (1880:310); Verrill (1881b:398)	Meinertzhagen letter 27 June 1879 to Kirk; Pfeffer (1912:32); Dell (1952:98)	Mr. Meinertzhagen sent beak, saved by third party (unidentified), to Kirk. Natives called specimen a "taniwha".
21	1870 (winter)	Lamaline, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis monachus of Steenstrup	Two specimens; entire?	None?; used as fish bait		Two; EL: Template:Convert and EL: Template:Convert	None?; Verrill specimen Nos. 8 & 9 ("Lamaline specimens")	Murray (1874a:162); Verrill (1875a:36); Verrill (1880a:187); Verrill (1882c:11)	Boston Traveller, November 1873; Harvey (1874a:69); Kent (1874a:182); Frost (1934:101); Earle (1977:52)	Data from Mr. Harvey letter citing Rev. M. Gabriel's statement to Harvey.
22 (📷)	October 1871	Grand Banks, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating at surface	Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875	Entire; part used as bait	Jaws obtained from Baird for examination by Verrill		BL: ≈Template:Convert; BD: Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert [mutilated]; AD: Template:Convert; AC: Template:Convert; beak; BC: Template:Convert; WT: Template:Convert	Jaws at NMNH (no longer extant?); lower jaw is syntype of Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875b; Verrill specimen No. 1 ("Grand Banks specimen" [1st])	Packard (1873:91); Verrill (1874a:158); Verrill (1874b:167); Verrill (1875b:79, fig. 27); Verrill (1880a:181, 210, pl. 18 fig. 3); Verrill (1882c:5, pl. 11 figs. 3–3a)	Pfeffer (1912:20); Frost (1934:100)	Taken by Capt. Campbell, Schooner B.D. Haskins.
23	1871	Wellington, New Zealand {SWP}						?EL: Template:Convert		Dell (1952)	Ellis (1998a:258)
24	1872 (autumn or winter)	Coomb's Cove, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found alive in shallow water, having been driven ashore in heavy sea		Entire; "one long arm missing" (later changed to both present)			BL: Template:Convert; BD: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert; AD: Template:Convert; skin + flesh: Template:Convert thick; EL: Template:Convert	Unknown; Verrill specimen No. 3 ("Coombs' Cove specimen")	Verrill (1874a:159); Verrill (1874b:167); Verrill (1875a:35); Verrill (1880a:183); Verrill (1882c:7)	Owen (1881:163); Frost (1934:101)	Specimen had a reddish colour. Verrill's data taken from newspaper accounts and 15/VI/1873 T.R. Bennett letter to Prof. Baird. Verrill (1880a:186) states his No. 6 is same specimen as No. 3; this cannot be correct, since capture date for No. 6 is clearly stated as December 1874 by Verrill (1875c:213).
25 (📷)	December 1872	Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	?Architeuthis dux;?Architeuthis harveyi	Entire (damaged arms)	Pair of jaws and two suckers		TL: Template:Convert; AL: ≈Template:Convert; BL: ≈Template:Convert [estimate]; BC: Template:Convert	NMNH; YPM catalog no. IZ 034835. Verrill specimen No. 4 ("Bonavista Bay specimen") (1875a:33); and possibly also Verrill specimen No. 11 ("Second Bonavista Bay specimen") (1875b:79)	Verrill (1874a:160); Verrill (1874b:167); Verrill (1875a:33, fig. 11); Verrill (1875b:79); Verrill (1880a:184, 187, pl. 16 figs. 5–6, pl. 25 fig. 5); Verrill (1882c:8, 11, pl. 3 figs. 4–4a, pl. 4 figs. 1–1a)	Pfeffer (1912:19); Frost (1934:101)	Material from Rev. A. Munn, through Prof. Baird to Verrill.
26 (📷)	Unknown (reported 1873)	North Atlantic Ocean {NWA}	From sperm whale stomach	Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875; Ommastrephes (Architeuthis) princeps	Upper and lower jaws	Upper and lower jaws		Beak measurements	Presented by Capt. N.E. Atwood of Provincetown, Massachusetts to EI; PASS; syntype of Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875b; Verrill specimen No. 10 ("Sperm-whale specimen")	Packard (1873:91, fig. 10); Verrill (1875a:22); Verrill (1875b:79, figs. 25–26); Tryon (1879b:185, pl. 85); Verrill (1880a:187, 210, pl. 18 figs. 1–2); Verrill (1882c:11, pl. 11 figs. 1–2)	Frost (1934:101)	First reported by Alpheus Spring Packard in February 1873. Verrill states Packard's illustration is inaccurate.
27 (📷)	Unknown (reported 1873)	Unknown; possibly east coast of South America {SWA}?	Not stated	Architeuthis monachus; Plectoteuthis grandis Owen, 1881; Architeuthis sp.? (grandis); nomen nudum	Sessile arm	Arm		AL: Template:Convert; AC: Template:Convert; ASD: ≤Template:Convert; total size and size of various missing parts estimated by Lee (1875:114)	BMNH; holotype of Plectoteuthis grandis Owen, 1881	Kent (1874a:179); Kent (1874d:493); Lee (1875:113); Verrill (1875b:86); Owen (1881:156, pls. 34–35); Verrill (1881b:400); Verrill (1882b:72); Steenstrup (1882:[160]); Pfeffer (1912:37)	Dell (1970:27)	"No history relating to it has been preserved", but first examined by Henry Lee in May 1873, having been in BMNH collections for "long" time. Bore Template:Circa 300 suckers.
28	1873	Yedo [Tokyo] fishmarket, Japan {NWP}	Purchased	Megateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880; Nomen spurium	'Entire', missing head, "abdominal sac", ends of tentacles and arms	Not specified		ML: 186 cm; WL: 414 cm; HL: 41 cm; AL: 197 cm [longest]; ASD: 1.5 cm (with 37 cusps); EyD: 200 mm	ZMB Moll. 34716 + 38980; holotype of Megateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880 [34716a: eyeball, 200 mm diameter, dry; 34716b: pieces of arm and gladius, suckers; 34716c: larger piece of arm with suckers; 38980: four suckers from holotype arm piece]	Hilgendorf (1880:67); Pfeffer (1912:31); Sasaki (1929:227); Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2000:276)	Owen (1881:163); Sasaki (1916:90)	Second specimen from Tokyo fishmarket seen by Franz Martin Hilgendorf and used for description of gladius. Of other specimen, Hilgendorf saved "parts of an arm, the covering of the eye, and a fragment of the gladius" ("Theile eines Armes, die Hüllen des Auges, und ein Bruchstück des Schulpes"). Model of specimen placed in Exhibition of Fishery in Berlin.
29 (📷)	26 October 1873	off Portugal Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating at surface, alive	Megaloteuthis harveyi Kent, 1874; Architeuthis monachus of Steenstrup;?Architeuthis harveyi	Entire	One tentacle; one arm discarded		(see Verrill, 1880a:220) TL: Template:Convert [incomplete; total estimated at Template:Convert with ≈Template:Convert left attached to body and Template:Convert subsequently destroyed]; TC: Template:Convert [stalk; club Template:Convert]; TSD: Template:Convert; additional measurements based on photograph; additional club measurement from Harvey letter; BL: ≈Template:Convert; EL: ≈Template:Convert [estimate]; AL: Template:Convert; AD: Template:Convert; TSC: ≈180; beak as large "as a six-gallon keg"; "tail" Template:Convert across	YPM?; holotype of Megaloteuthis harveyi Kent, 1874; Verrill specimen No. 2 ("Conception Bay specimen")	Harvey (1873a); Harvey (1873b); Harvey (1873c); Harvey (1874a:67, fig.); Murray (1874a:161); Murray (1874b:120); Verrill (1874a:159); Verrill (1874b:167); Kent (1874a:178, 182); Agassiz (1874:226); Kent (1874d:32); Buckland (1875:211); Verrill (1875a:34); Verrill (1875b:78); Verrill (1880a:181); Verrill (1881b:pl. 26 fig. 5); Verrill (1882b:74); Verrill (1882c:5, pl. 4 figs. 3–3a); Hatton & Harvey (1883:238); Harvey (1899:732, fig.); Ellis (1998a:81); Haslam (2017)	"13 December Field"; [Anon.] (1873:2); Harvey (1873d:2); [Anon.] (1874:333); de La Blanchère (1874:197, fig.); Rathbun (1881:266, fig.); Owen (1881:161, pl. 33 fig. 2); Lee (1883:42, fig. 9); [Anon.] (1902b:6, fig.); Pfeffer (1912:19); Frost (1934:100); Aldrich (1991:457); Packham (1998); Dery (2013)	Struck by Theophilus Picot from boat whereupon it "attacked" the boat; veracity of account has been questioned.Template:Refn Severed tentacle purchased by Moses Harvey for NF$10 (equivalent to US$Template:To USD in Template:Inflation/year) and preserved in alcohol; exhibited at Alexander Murray's geological museum in St. John's (a forerunner of the Newfoundland Museum, itself now part of The Rooms), where it remained as of 1883. Famed naturalist Louis Agassiz showed great interest in the specimen, writing: "It is truly important for the history of cephalopods"; his final scientific letters (he died on 14 December 1873) concerned the possibility of examining its remains. Served as a reference for the earliest known "life-sized" giant squid cutout, from the 1870s.Template:Refn Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as the "longest visually estimated" total length of any giant squid specimen. Encounter dramatised in episode of 1998 documentary series The X Creatures; fictionalised in The Adventures of Billy Topsail (1906) by Norman Duncan and The Kraken (1995) by Don C. Reed.Template:Refn A similar event is portrayed in The Shipping News (1993) by E. Annie Proulx.
30 (📷)	25 November? 1873	Logy Bay (≈3 miles from St. John's), Newfoundland {NWA}	In herring net	?Architeuthis monachus of Steenstrup; Ommastrephes (Architeuthis) monachus; Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874)	Entire (badly mutilated, head severed, eyes missing, etc.)	Miscellaneous parts obtained from Rev. M. Harvey (gladius and ?)		(see Verrill, 1880a:220; Buckland, 1875:214) BL: ≈Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; HC: Template:Convert [at junction with arms]; caudal fin: Template:Convert broad; TL: Template:Convert; TC: Template:Convert; TSD: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert [all 8]; AC: Template:Convert, Template:Convert, Template:Convert, Template:Convert [all basal measurements]; ASC: ≈100; CSC: ≈160; EyD: Template:Convert [estimate based on remains of "eyelid"]; club description; extensive description of reconstructed parts	YPM catalog nos. IZ 009634 (beak and limbs), IZ 017924 (radula), IZ 017925, IZ 017926 & IZ 034968Template:Dead link. Verrill specimen No. 5 ("Logie Bay specimen")	Harvey (1873d:2); Verrill (1874a:160); Verrill (1874b:167); Kent (1874a:181); Kent (1874d:32); Buckland (1875:212, 214); Verrill (1875a:22, figs. 1–6, 10); Verrill (1876:236); Tryon (1879b:184, pls. 83–84); Verrill (1880a:184, 197, pls. 13–15, pl. 16 figs. 1–4, pl. 16a); Verrill (1880b:295, pl. 13); Verrill (1882c:8, pls. 1–2, pl. 3 figs. 1–3, pl. 4 figs. 4–11, pl. 5 figs. 1–5); Hatton & Harvey (1883:240); Harvey (1899:735, fig.); Pfeffer (1912:18); Aldrich (1991:457, fig. 1A, B); Haslam (2017)	Harvey in Morning Chronicle (newspaper) of St. John's; Maritime Monthly Magazine of St. John's, March 1874; several other newspapers; [Anon.] (1874:332); Lee (1883:43, fig. 10); [Anon.] (1902b:6, fig.); Frost (1934:101)	Verrill's data from letter to Dr. Dawson from Moses Harvey. Harvey purchased specimen for NF$10 (equivalent to US$Template:To USD in Template:Inflation/year). Photographs made of a) entire body, somewhat mutilated anteriorly; b) head and 10 limbs. Poorly preserved; first in brine, then in alcohol. Capture date given as December several times, then as November several times, and as 25 November by Aldrich (1991:457). Served as a reference for the earliest known "life-sized" giant squid cutout, from the 1870s.Template:Refn Verrill's description served as the basis for the "life-sized" model that now hangs at the Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 104471), built in 1966, though it was also based on several Newfoundland specimens from the 1960s. Specimen and famous photograph of it draped over Harvey's shower curtain rod were subject of Preparing the Ghost (2014), a work of creative nonfiction by Matthew Gavin Frank.
31	1874	Buøy, Foldenfjord, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux	Entire	None		WL: ≈4 m		Grieg (1933:19)	Nordgård (1928:71)
32	10 May 1874	off Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (Template:Coord) {NIO}	Reportedly seen sinking ship					Unknown		The Times, 4 July 1874; Mystic Press, 31 July 1874; Lane (1957:205); Flynn & Weigall (1980); Ellis (1998a:198); Boyle (1999); Uragoda (2005:97)	Welfare & Fairley (1980:74); Aldrich (1990a:5); Clarke (1992:72); Ellis (1998a:258)	Schooner Pearl (150 tons) with crew of six, including captain James Floyd, supposedly sunk by giant squid. Incident reportedly seen from passenger steamer Strathowen, bound from Colombo to Madras, which rescued five of the crew. Veracity of account has been questioned, though taken seriously by Frederick Aldrich. Fictionalised in Don C. Reed's 1995 novel The Kraken.
33 (📷)	2 November 1874	on beach, St. Paul Island, Indian Ocean (Template:Coord) {SIO}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis mouchezi Vélain (1875:1002) [nomen nudum]; Mouchezis sancti-pauli Vélain (1877:81); Ommastrephes mouchezi	Entire; found in advanced state of decay	Tentacle(s?) and buccal mass		EL: 7.15 m	MNHN catalog nos. 3-2-658 & 3-2-659 (tentacular clubs); holotype of Mouchezis sancti-pauli Vélain, 1877	Vélain (1875:1002); Vélain (1877:81 & 83, fig. 8); Vélain (1878:81 & 83, fig. 8); Tryon (1879b:184, pl. 82 fig. 378); Owen (1881:159); Pfeffer (1912:32)	Gervais (1875:88); Verrill (1875c:213); Wright (1878:329)	Recorded by geologist Charles Vélain during French astronomical mission to Île Saint-Paul to observe the transit of Venus. Specimen was photographed.
34 (📷)	December 1874	Grand Bank, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis princeps	Entire, except for tail (cut up for dog food)	Jaws, one tentacular sucker		EL: Template:Convert; HL+BL: Template:Convert; ?TL: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; TC: Template:Convert; BL: Template:Convert; jaws	YPM catalog nos. IZ 010272 (beak) & IZ 034836Template:Dead link. Verrill specimen No. 6 and Verrill specimen No. 13 ("Fortune Bay specimen")	Verrill (1875a:35); Verrill (1875c:213); Verrill (1880a:186, 188, 217, pl. 17 fig. 11); Verrill (1881b:445, pl. 54 fig. 1); Verrill (1882c:10, 12, pl. 7 fig. 1, pl. 9 fig. 11)	Simms letter 27/X/1875 to Verrill; Frost (1934:102)	Data from 10/XII/1873 letter from Mr. Harvey to unknown individual citing measurements taken by G. Simms; Pfeffer (1912:21). Measurements are given differently in different papers. Verrill (1880a:186) and Verrill (1882c:10) states his No. 6 is same specimen as No. 3; this cannot be correct, as capture date for No. 6 is clearly stated as December 1874 by Verrill (1875c:213). Verrill (1880a:188, pl. 17) repeats record as his No. 13.
35	winter of 1874–1875	near Harbor Grace, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore			Destroyed		None taken	None; Verrill specimen No. 12 ("Harbor Grace specimen")	Verrill (1875b:79); Verrill (1880a:188); Verrill (1882c:12)	Frost (1934:102)	"destroyed before its value became known, and no measurements are given"
36	Unknown (reported 1875)	west St. Modent (on Labrador side), Strait of Belle Isle, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found alive	Architeuthis princeps or Architeuthis monachus of Steenstrup	Entire	None; cut up, salted, and barrelled for dog meat		?TL: Template:Convert; BL+HL: Template:Convert; EL: Template:Convert; SD: ≈Template:Convert	None; Verrill specimen No. 7 ("Labrador specimen")	Verrill (1875a:36); Verrill (1880a:186); Verrill (1882c:10)	Dr. Honeyman article in Halifax newspaper; Frost (1934:101)	Data from unidentified third party cited in Halifax newspaper article.
37 (📷)	25 April 1875 (or 26 April)	north-west of Boffin Island, Connemara, Ireland {NEA}	Found immobile at surface; attacked and chased by fishermen; arms successively hacked off and eventually killed	Architeuthis monachus; Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Beak and buccal mass, one arm ("much mutilated and decayed", missing horny rings), portions of both tentacles ("shrunk and distorted", missing horny rings on large central club suckers); head, eyes and second arm initially saved, but soon lost/destroyed		TL: Template:Convert [fresh]; TL: 14/17 ft (Template:Convert/Template:Convert m) [pickled]; CL: Template:Convert [shrunken]; CSD: nearly Template:Convert; SSD: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert [fresh]; AC: Template:Convert [fresh]; beak: ≈Template:Convert × Template:Convert; "trunk": "fully as long as the canoe"; EyD: ≈Template:Convert; WT: ≈Template:Convert [head only]; additional sucker measurements	NMI catalog no. 1995.16 (beak in spirit)	O'Connor (1875:4502); More (1875b:4569); More (1875c:123); Verrill (1875c:214); Massy (1909:30); Nunn & Holmes (2008)	Galway Express 1875; Ritchie (1918:137); Massy (1928:32); Taylor (1932:3); Robson (1933:692); Rees (1950:40); Hardy (1956:285); Collins (1998:489)	On public display. Caught by three-man longline fishing crew of currach ("curragh") for use as bait for coarse fish. Found motionless at surface surrounded by gulls, becoming active upon being attacked by fishermen, swimming away "at a tremendous rate" and releasing ink. Progressively disabled with a knife (fishermen having no gaff or spare rope) as chased for 2 hours over Template:Convert, before head eventually severed; heavy mantle allowed to sink. Specimen secured and preserved by Sergeant Thomas O'Connor of the Royal Irish Constabulary and forwarded by him to the museum of the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin (now the National Museum of Ireland – Natural History).
38	October 1875	Grand Banks [of Newfoundland], Atlantic Ocean (chiefly 44°–44°30'N 49°30'–49°50'W) {NWA}	Found floating at surface; "mostly entirely dead" but small minority "not quite dead, but entirely disabled"	Architeuthis	Multiple; mutilated by birds and fishes to varying degrees, especially limbs; No. 25 missing parts of arms; No. 26 with intact arms and tentacles	None; cut up for cod bait		No. 25: Filled ≈Template:Convert tub; WT: nearly Template:Convert [estimate, complete]; No. 26: TL: Template:Convert; Howard specimens: BL+HL?: mostly Template:Convert [excluding "arms"]; BD: ≈Template:Convert [average]; AL: usually Template:Convert [incomplete]; AD: "about as large as a man's thigh" [at base]; Tragabigzanda specimens: BL+HL?: Template:Convert [excluding "arms"]	None; included Verrill specimen No. 25 and Verrill specimen No. 26	Verrill (1881a:251); Verrill (1881b:396); Verrill (1882c:19)	Frost (1934:103)	An unusual number (≈25–30) of mostly dead giant squid found by Gloucester, Massachusetts fishermen, with similar number estimated to have been obtained by vessels from other areas. Data from Capt. J.W. Collins of the United States Fish Commission, who at the time of the incident commanded schooner Howard, which collected five specimens. Other involved vessels included schooner Sarah P. Ayer (Capt. Oakley), which took 1–2 specimens; E. R. Nickerson (Capt. McDonald), which harpooned one (No. 26) with intact arms that was "not entirely dead"; and schooner Tragabigzanda (Capt. Mallory), which took three in one afternoon. Some fishermen stated that such "big squids" were also common at the Flemish Cap during the same season. Verrill conjectured that this mass mortality might have been due to an outbreak of disease or parasites, and/or related to their reproductive cycle.
39	Template:Circa 1876	Clifford Bay, Cape Campbell, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore		Entire	Jaws		BL: Template:Convert [estimate]; EL: ≈Template:Convert [estimate]	Colonial Museum [NMNZ]	Robson (1887:156); Kirk (1880)	Pfeffer (1912:32); Dell (1952:98)
40	20 November 1876	Hammer Cove, southwest arm of Green Bay, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore		Partial specimen; devoured by foxes and seabirds	Piece of pen Template:Convert long		WH: Template:Convert; FW: Template:Convert	In Harvey's possession; Verrill specimen No. 15 ("Hammer Cove specimen")	Verrill (1880a:190); Verrill (1880b:284); Verrill (1882c:14)	M. Harvey letter 25 August 1877 to Verrill; Frost (1934:102)
41	1877?	Norway {NEA}	Not stated		Map location only					Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)
42 (📷)	24 September 1877	Catalina, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore, alive	Architeuthis princeps; Ommastrephes (Architeuthis) princeps	Entire; "nearly perfect specimen"	Loose suckers		(see Verrill, 1880a:220) HL+BL: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert [longest, ventral]; AC: Template:Convert [ventral]; beak; FW: Template:Convert	YPM catalog nos. IZ 017927, IZ 017928, IZ 017929 & IZ 017930. Verrill specimen No. 14 ("Catalina specimen")	Harvey (1877); [Anon.] (1877a:266, 269, fig.); [Anon.] (1877b:867, fig.); [Anon.] (1877c:305, fig.); Verrill (1877:425); Tryon (1879b:185); Verrill (1880a:189, pl. 17 figs. 1–10, pls. 19–20); Verrill (1880b:295, pl. 12); Verrill (1882c:13, pl. 8, pl. 9 figs. 1–10, pl. 10)	Owen (1881:163); Hatton & Harvey (1883:242); Pfeffer (1912:21); Frost (1934:102); Miner (1935:187, fig., 201); Ellis (1997a:31)	Measured fresh by M. Harvey; examined preserved (poorly) by Verrill at New York Aquarium. Later "prepared" for exhibition by taxidermist. Served as the basis for the earliest "life-sized" giant squid models, including the original three made by Verrill and J. H. Emerton and six subsequent ones by Ward's. Described by Frederick Aldrich as "largest giant squid to be encountered in Newfoundland".
43	October 1877	Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Not stated		"big squid"	None		None taken	None; Verrill specimen No. 17 ("Trinity Bay specimen")	Verrill (1880a:191); Verrill (1880b:285); Verrill (1882c:15)	M. Harvey letter 17 November 1877 to Verrill citing reference to specimen by John Duffet; Frost (1934:102)	Specimen cut up and used for manure.
44 (📷)	21 November 1877	Smith's Sound, Lance Cove, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore, alive	?Architeuthis princeps	Entire	None; carried off by tide		BL(+HL?): Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert [estimate]	None; Verrill specimen No. 16 ("Lance Cove specimen")	Verrill (1880a:190); Verrill (1880b:285); Verrill (1882c:14)	M. Harvey letter 27 November 1877 to Verrill citing measurements taken by John Duffet; Frost (1934:102)	Found still alive, having "ploughed up a trench or furrow about Template:Convert long and of considerable depth by the stream of water that it ejected with great force from its siphon. When the tide receded it died."
(📷)	1878 (accessioned)	Catlins, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated	Architeuthis sp.	Entire?	Beak		BL: Template:Convert; ML: 1.6 m [estimate]; EL: ≈10 m [estimate]	Otago Museum catalog no. IV119151	Lau (2021); [OM] (2021)	Copedo (2022)	On public display. Collected by Capt. Charles Hayward (Catlins River harbourmaster, 1872–1887). Acquired in 1878 by Capt. Frederick Wollaston Hutton, first curator of Otago Museum, according to museum records; rediscovered and publicised in 2021. Placed on display in Animal Attic gallery. Mantle and total length estimated by teuthologist Kat Bolstad based on beak measurements.
45 (📷)	2 November 1878	Thimble Tickle, near Little Bay Copper Mine, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found aground offshore, alive; secured to tree with grapnel and rope; died as tide receded	?Architeuthis princeps	Entire	None; cut up for dog food		BL+HL: Template:Convert; TL: Template:ConvertTemplate:Refn	None; Verrill specimen No. 18 ("Thimble Tickle specimen")	Verrill (1880a:191); Verrill (1880b:285); Verrill (1882c:15); Ellis (1998a:6, 89, 107)	M. Harvey letter 30 January 1879 to Boston Traveller; Hatton & Harvey (1883:242); Holder (1885:165, pl. 25); Frost (1934:102); Carberry (2001); Harvey (2004); Hickey (2009); Paxton (2016a:83)	Discovered by fisherman Stephen Sherring and two others.Template:Refn Often cited as the largest recorded giant squid specimen, and long treated as such by Guinness.Template:Refn Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as candidate for "longest measured" total length of any giant squid specimen (together with #62, and less reliably #209). Giant Squid Interpretation Centre and "life-sized", 55-foot sculpture built near site of capture; sculpture appeared on Canadian postage stamp issued in 2011 and has associated annual festival.
46	2 December 1878	Three Arms, South Arm of Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	?Architeuthis princeps	Entire, mutilated and with arms missing (only one arm "perfect")	None; cut up for dog food		BL+HL: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert; AD: "thicker than a man's thigh"	None; Verrill specimen No. 19 ("Three Arms specimen")	Verrill (1880a:192); Verrill (1880b:286); Verrill (1882c:16)	M. Harvey letter 30 January 1879 to Boston Traveller; Hatton & Harvey (1883:242); Frost (1934:102); Paxton (2016a:83)	Found dead by fisherman William Budgell after heavy gale. Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as the "longest measured" standard length of any giant squid specimen.
47 (📷)	23 May 1879	Lyall Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Steenstrupia stockii Kirk, 1882 [=Architeuthis sp.?]	Entire, but somewhat mutilated; missing ends of tentacles	Pen, beak, tongue, some suckers		ML: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; HL: Template:Convert; BL+HL: Template:Convert; HC: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert; AC: Template:Convert; ASC: 36; TL: Template:Convert [incomplete]; FL: Template:Convert; FW: Template:Convert (single); GL: Template:Convert; GW: Template:Convert; other measurements	NMNZ catalog nos. M.125403 & M.125405; holotype of Steenstrupia stockii Kirk, 1882. Kirk specimen No. 3	Kirk (1880:310); Verrill (1881b:398); Kirk (1882:286, pl. 36 figs. 2–4)	Verrill (1882d:477); Kirk (1888:34); Pfeffer (1912:34); Suter (1913:1051); Dell (1952:98); Dell (1970:27); Stevens (1980:213, fig. 12.24); Stevens (1988:149, fig. 2); Judd (1996); Paxton (2016a:83); Greshko (2016)	Measurements taken by T.W. Kirk. Has been called the "largest specimen recorded in the scientific literature" based on erroneous total length of "approximately 20 m", itself based on claim by Roper & Boss (1982:104) relating to unspecified specimen "stranded on a beach in New Zealand in 1880 [sic]". Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as the longest reliably measured mantle length of any giant squid specimen (less reliably that of #104), but measurement considered dubious by experts due to wide discrepancy with reported gladius length.Template:Refn
48	1879	off Nova Scotia, Canada (Template:Coord) {NWA}	From fish stomach, Alepidosaurus [sic] ferox	?Architeuthis megaptera Verrill, 1878; ?Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874)	Terminal part of tentacular arm	Portion of arm		Template:Convert long	NMNH catalog no. 576962. Verrill specimen No. 20 ("Banquereau specimen" [after Banquereau Bank, a bank off Nova Scotia])	Verrill (1880a:193); Verrill (1880b:287); Verrill (1882c:16)	Frost (1934:103)	Lancetfish taken by Capt. J.W. Collins of schooner Marion on halibut trawl-line.
49 (📷)	September 1879	Olafsfjord, Iceland {NEA}		Architeuthis		Left tentacle		TL: 7680+ mm; CL: 1010 mm; CSC: 268; TSC: 290; additional indices and counts	ZMUC [specimen NA-7 of Roeleveld (2002)]	Roeleveld (2002:727)		Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002).
50	October 1879	near Brigus, Conception Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore		Two arms with other mutilated parts	Undetermined		AL: Template:Convert	None?; Verrill specimen No. 22 ("Brigus specimen")	Verrill (1880a:194); Verrill (1880b:287); Verrill (1882c:17)	Frost (1934:103)	Found after storm. Information provided by Moses Harvey.
51	1 November 1879	James's Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found at surface, alive		Entire	None; cut up by fishermen		EL: Template:Convert; BL: Template:Convert; BC: ≈Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert	None; Verrill specimen No. 23 ("James's Cove specimen")	Verrill (1880a:194); Verrill (1880b:287); Verrill (1882c:17)	Morning Chronicle of St. John's 9 December 1879; Frost (1934:103)	Found alive and driven ashore.
52	Unknown (reported 1880)	near Boulder Bank, Nelson, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated; hook and line?		Not indicated	Undetermined		Template:Convert long	None?; Kirk specimen No. 4	Kirk (1880:310); Verrill (1881b:398)	Newspaper article	Caught by fishing party. No other data.
53	Unknown (reported 1880)	near Flat Point, east coast, New Zealand {SWP}	Not stated		Not indicated	Undetermined		None	None?; Kirk specimen No. 5	Kirk (1880:310); Verrill (1881b:398)	Description sent to Mr. Beetham, M.H.R., by Mr. Moore	Found by Mr. Moore. No other data.
54 (📷)	April 1880	Grand Banks, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found dead at surface	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874)	Head, tentacles, and arms only	Head, tentacles, and arms		TL: Template:Convert; ASC: 330; extensive measurements and counts	YPM catalog no. 12600y. Verrill specimen No. 24 ("Grand Banks specimen" [2nd])	Verrill (1881b:259, pl. 26 figs. 1–4, pl. 38 figs. 3–7); Verrill (1882c:18, pl. 4 figs. 2–2a, pl. 5 figs. 6–8, pl. 6)	Pfeffer (1912:19); Frost (1934:103)	Found dead by Capt. O.A. Whitten of schooner Wm.H. Oakes. Arm and sucker regeneration documented by Verrill (1881b:260); one of two published records of limb regeneration in architeuthids (as identified by Imperadore & Fiorito, 2018), the other being a case of tentacle regeneration in #169 (see also #549).
55 (📷)	6 June 1880	Island Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis verrilli Kirk, 1882	Entire	Not specified		ML: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; AL(I, II, IV): Template:Convert; AC(I, II, IV): Template:Convert; AL(III): Template:Convert; AC(III): Template:Convert; ASC(III): 71; HC: Template:Convert; HL: Template:Convert; FL: Template:Convert; FW: Template:Convert; EyD: Template:Convert by Template:Convert	NMNZ; holotype of Architeuthis verrilli Kirk, 1882; specimen no longer extant	Kirk (1882:284, pl. 36 fig. 1)	Verrill (1882d:477); Kirk (1888:35); Pfeffer (1912:33); Suter (1913:1052); Dell (1952:98); Dell (1970:27)	Measurements taken by Kirk, except TL by James McColl. Beak and portions of gladius ("skeleton") taken by Italian fishermen and not recovered.
56	Template:Circa 1880	Kvænangen fjord, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None		None		Grieg (1933:19)	Sivertsen (1955:11)
57	Template:Circa 1880	Tønsvik, Tromsøysundet, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	None		None		Grieg (1933:19)
58	October 1880	Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland {NEA}	Found washed ashore	"octopus"; Architeuthis sp.						O'Brien (1880:585); Ritchie (1918:137)	Rees (1950:40); Collins (1998:489)	Originally cited as an octopus.
59	first week of November 1881	on beach, Hennesey's Cove, Long Island, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis princeps?	Entire; "much mutilated by crows and other birds"	Not stated		"very large"; BL+HL: Template:Convert [estimate]	Verrill specimen No. 28	Verrill (1882c:221)	M. Harvey letter 19 December 1881 to Verrill	Found by Albert Butcher and George Wareham, "who cut a portion from the head", at uninhabited locality; Verrill considered their estimate of the specimen's length "probably too large". Moses Harvey learned of the specimen from C. D. Chambers, magistrate of Harbour Buffet, Placentia Bay. Only mentioned in Verrill (1882c:221); overlooked by Ellis (1994a:379–384), Ellis (1998a:257–265), and Sweeney & Roper (2001).
60 (📷)	10 November 1881	Portugal Cove, near St. John's, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found floating dead near shore	Architeuthis harveyi (Kent, 1874)	Entire	Entire (somewhat mutilated and poorly preserved)		a) BL: Template:Convert; HL: Template:Convert; EL: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert b) ML: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; FL: Template:Convert; FW: Template:Convert [single]; TL: Template:Convert; CL: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert [ventral, minus tip]; TC: Template:Convert [at base]; additional measurements	E.M. Worth Museum (101 Bowery, NY, NY). Verrill specimen No. 27	[Anon.] (1881:821, fig.); Verrill (1881b:422); Verrill (1882a:71); Verrill (1882c:201, 219)	Morris article in 25 November 1881 New York Herald; Hatton & Harvey (1883:242); Pfeffer (1912:19); Ellis (1997a:34)	Obtained by Mr. Morris, photographed by E. Lyons (St. John's), shipped on ice by steamer Catima to New York, purchased and preserved by E.M. Worth. Measurements by a) Inspector Murphy (chief Board of Public Works) when iced; b) Verrill of fixed specimen. An 1881 specimen from Portugal Cove with a "body" reportedly Template:Convert long, mentioned in The Evening Telegram of St. John's (21 December 1933) and cited by Frost (1934:103), presumably refers to the same animal. May have served as a reference for Verrill and J. H. Emerton's original three "life-sized" giant squid models (and six subsequent ones by Ward's), as Verrill saw the specimen shortly before he began modelling.
61	30 June 1886	Cape Campbell, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887	Entire	Beak and club		ML: Template:Convert; HL: Template:Convert; AL: Template:Convert; TL: Template:Convert; EL: Template:Convert; BC: ≈Template:Convert [estimate]	NMNZ catalog nos. M.125404 & ?M.125406; holotype of Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887. Kirk specimen No. 2	Kirk (1879:310); Verrill (1881b:398); Robson (1887:156)	C.H.[W.] Robson letter 19 June 1879 to T.W. Kirk; Pfeffer (1912:35); Suter (1913:1048); Dell (1952:98); Dell (1970:27)	Found by Mr. C.H.[W.] Robson; beak given to Mr. A. Hamilton.
	1886	Cupids and Hearts Content (one specimen from each), Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	"giant squid"	Two specimens; entire?	None?; cut up for bait		None given		Earle (1977:53)		Moses Harvey only learned of specimens after their destruction. Information sourced from clippings found in one of Harvey's scrapbooks preserved at Newfoundland Public Archives (PG/A/17).
62 (📷)	"early" October 1887	Lyall Bay, New Zealand {SWP}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis longimanus Kirk, 1888	Entire	Beak and buccal-mass	Female	EL: Template:Convert; ML: Template:Convert; BC: Template:Convert; extensive additional measurements and descriptionTemplate:Refn	Dominion Museum [NMNZ]; holotype of Architeuthis longimanus Kirk, 1888. Specimen not found	Kirk (1888:35, pls. 7–9); Pfeffer (1912:36)	Suter (1913:1049); Dell (1952:98); Dell (1970:27); Wood (1982:191); Ellis (1998a:7, 92); O'Shea & Bolstad (2008); Dery (2013); Paxton (2016a:83)	Strangely proportioned animal that has been much commented on; sometimes cited as the longest giant squid specimen ever recorded.Template:Refn Considered by Paxton (2016a:83) as candidate for "longest measured" total length of any giant squid specimen (together with #45, and less reliably #209). Found by Mr. Smith, local fisherman. Measurements taken by T.W. Kirk. Date found listed incorrectly in Dell (1952:98).
63	27 August 1888	between Pico and St. George, Azores Islands (Template:Coord) at 1266 m depth {NEA}	By benthic trawl	Architeuthis? sp.?	Large beak	Undetermined		None		Joubin (1895:34)
64	September 1889	Løkberg farm, Mo i Rana, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore		Entire	None		BL: ≈5 ells (3.1 m); TL: 10–12 ells (6.3–7.5 m)		[Anon.] (1890:190)	Sivertsen (1955:11, fig. 4)	Bergen Museum notified of find by Lorentz Pettersen of Sjona, Helgeland. Failure to secure remains prompted museum to issue notice in June 1890 issue of Naturen seeking specimens in future (which would be first for a Norwegian museum) and offering to cover all associated transportation and packing costs in addition to regular compensation.
	1890	Island Cove, Newfoundland {NWA}	Found washed ashore	"giant squid"	Entire?	None?; cut up for bait?		None given		Earle (1977:53)		Moses Harvey only learned of specimen after its destruction. Information sourced from clippings found in one of Harvey's scrapbooks preserved at Newfoundland Public Archives (PG/A/17).
65	Unknown (reported 1892)	Sao Miguel Island, Azores Islands {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis princeps	Entire?	Jaws and tentacle club		Beak measurements	Museum in Lisbon	Girard (1892:214, pls. 1–2)	Pfeffer (1912:27); Robson (1933:692)
66	1892	Greenland {NWA}	Not stated	Architeuthis monachus						Posselt (1898:279)
[2]	Unknown (reported November 1894)	Talcahuano, Chile {SEP}	Unknown; collected and donated to ZMB by Ludwig Plate	Ommastrephes gigas; Architeuthis; Dosidicus gigas	Entire	Entire, internal parts missing, preserved in alcohol; "exceptionally good condition" (Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas, 2004:55)	Female (adult)	ML: 865 mm; MW: 230 mm; EL: 1740 mm; HL: 160 mm; HW: 190 mm; FL: 440 mm; FW: 600 mm; TL: 720 mm; CL: 225 mm; AL(I): 460 mm; AL(II): 450 mm; AL(III): 500 mm; AL(IV): 440 mm; LSD: 20 mm [tentacle]; LSD: 15 mm [arm II]; LSD: 14 mm [arm II]; EyD: 80 mm; Lens: 35 mm	ZMB Moll. 49.804	Martens (1894); Glaubrecht & Salcedo-Vargas (2004:53, figs. 1a–f, 2a–g)	Möbius (1898a:373); Möbius (1898b:135); [Anon.] (1899:38); [Anon.] (1902a:41); Kilias (1967:491, fig.); Wechsler (1999)	Non-architeuthid. On public display. First noted by Carl Eduard von Martens in November 1894. Exhibited at Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin from 1897 to World War II, and again from Template:Circa 1945–50, when it was housed in main entrance hall in large glass cylinder on marble pedestal. more From December 1975, displayed as part of "Meeresungeheuer" exhibit at German Maritime Museum in Stralsund, on loan from ZMB. Return to museum noted in February 1992, when it was placed in new purpose-built container and displayed in Malacological Collection. Incorrectly identified by Kilias (1967:491) as Architeuthis in figure legend, with total length given as ≈2 m (illustration removed in later edition). Specimen cast in 1997–98 for creation of 8.5-m-long plastic "giant squid" model, exhibited since 1998 at Übersee-Museum Bremen with sperm whale skull. Re-identified as Dosidicus gigas in June 1998 by Mario Alejandro Salcedo-Vargas. Internal parts apparently removed when specimen originally dissected by Martens or prepared for exhibition (1894–97).Template:Hiddenend
67 (📷)	4 February 1895	Bay of Tateyama [Tokyo Bay], Province of Awa, Japan {NWP}	In net	Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Entire	Undetermined	Female	ML: 720 mm; MW: 235 mm; GL: 640 mm; FL: 280 mm; FW: 200 mm; TL: 2910 mm; extensive additional measurements and description	Undetermined; ?Zoological Institute, Science College, Tokyo; holotype of Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912	Mitsukuri & Ikeda (1895:39, pl. 10); Pfeffer (1912:27)	Sasaki (1916:89)	Caught in net after 2–3-day storm.
68 (📷)	18 July 1895	near Angra, Azores Islands (38°34'45"N, 29°37'W) {NEA}	Caught at surface (from sperm whale vomit) using shrimp net	Dubioteuthis physeteris Joubin, 1900 [=Architeuthis physeteris (Joubin, 1900)]	Mantle only	Mantle	Male	ML: 460 mm; BD: 115 mm; FL: 220 mm; FW: 110 mm; GL: 390 mm	MOM [station 588]; holotype of Dubioteuthis physeteris Joubin, 1900	Joubin (1900:102, pl. 15 figs. 8–10); Pfeffer (1912:24)	Hardy (1956:288); Roper & Young (1972:220); Toll & Hess (1981:753)
[3] (📷)	18 July 1895	near Angra, Azores Islands (38°34'45"N, 29°37'W) {NEA}	Caught at surface (from sperm whale vomit) with shrimp net	Architeuthis sp.?; non-architeuthid	Several jaws	Undetermined		None		Joubin (1900:46, pl. 14 figs. 1–2)	Pfeffer (1912:27); Clarke (1956:257)	Non-architeuthid.
69 (📷)	10 April 1896	Kirkseteroren, Hevnefjorden, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire	Female	BL: 2.5 m; AL: 2.5 m; TL: 7.25 m	VSM	Storm (1897:99); Grieg (1933:19)	Brinkmann (1916:178); Nordgård (1923:11); Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11)	Model completed in 1954 based on this specimen and #70; restored in 2010.
70 (📷)	27 September 1896 [or 28 September]	Kirkseteroren, Hevnefjorden, Norway {NEA}	Found washed ashore	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Entire	Entire, posterior part missing	Male	TL: 1030+ mm; CL: 900 mm; CSC: 294; TSC: >298; LRL: 17.9 mm; URL: 16.2 mm; additional beak measurements, indices, and counts	VSM; VSM 110a [specimen NA-18 of Roeleveld (2000) and Roeleveld (2002)]	Storm (1897:99, fig. 20); Grieg (1933:19); Roeleveld (2000:185); Roeleveld (2002:727)	Brinkmann (1916:178, fig. 2); Nordgård (1923:11); Nordgård (1928:71); Sivertsen (1955:11); Toll & Hess (1981:753)	Beak morphometrics studied by Roeleveld (2000). Tentacle morphology examined by Roeleveld (2002). Model completed in 1954 based on this specimen and #69; restored in 2010.
71	Unknown (reported 1898)	Iceland {NEA}	Not stated	Architeuthis monachus	Not specified	Undetermined		None		Posselt (1898:279)	Bardarson (1920:134)

Type specimens

The following table lists the nominal species-level taxa associated with the genus Architeuthis, together with their corresponding type specimens, type localities, and type repositories. Binomial names are listed alphabetically by specific epithet and presented in their original combinations.

Binomial name and author citation	Systematic status	Type locality	Type specimen and type repository
Loligo bouyeri Crosse & Fischer, 1862:138	Architeuthid?	Canary Islands?	(#18) Unresolved
Architeuthis clarkei Robson, 1933:682, text-figs. 1–7, pl. 1	Undetermined	Scarborough Beach, Yorkshire, England	(#107) BMNH Holotype 1933.1.30.5 + 1926.3.31.24 (radula and beak)
Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857:183	Nomen tantum
Architeuthis dux Steenstrup in Harting, 1860:11, pl. 1 fig. 1A	Valid species	Template:Coord (Atlantic Ocean)	(#14) ZMUC Holotype
Plectoteuthis grandis Owen, 1881:156, pls. 34–35	Architeuthis sp.	Not indicated	(#27) BMNH Holotype [not traced by Lipiński et al. (2000)]
Architeuthis halpertius Aldrich, 1980:59	Nomen nudumTemplate:Refn
Loligo hartingii Verrill, 1875b:86, fig. 28	Valid species; Architeuthis hartingii	Not indicated	(#16) University of Utrecht as Architeuthis dux, identification by Harting
Megaloteuthis harveyi Kent, 1874a:181	Architeuthis sp.	Conception Bay, Newfoundland	(#29) YPM Type 12600y
Architeuthis japonica Pfeffer, 1912:27	Undetermined	Tokyo Bay, Japan	(#67) Undetermined; Holotype [=Mitsukuri & Ikeda (1895:39–50, pl. 10)]
Architeuthis kirkii Robson, 1887:155	Architeuthis stockii (Kirk, 1882)	Cape Campbell, New Zealand	(#61) NMNZ Holotype M.125404 + ?M.125406
Architeuthis longimanus Kirk, 1888:34, pls. 7–9	Architeuthis stockii (Kirk, 1882)	Lyall Bay, New Zealand	(#62) NMNZ Holotype; specimen not located
Megateuthis martensii Hilgendorf, 1880:67	Valid species; Architeuthis martensii	Yedo Japan fish market, Japan	(#28) ZMB Moll. 34716 + 38980
Architeuthis megaptera Verrill, 1878:207	Non-architeuthid; Sthenoteuthis pteropus (Steenstrup, 1855)	Nova Scotia, Canada	(#[1]) NSMC 1870–Z-2
Architeuthis? monachus Steenstrup, 1857:184	Nomen tantum
Architeuthis monachus Steenstrup in Harting, 1860:11	Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857	Raabjerg Strand; Northwest coast of Jutland, Denmark	(#13) ZMUC Holotype
Architeuthis mouchezi Vélain, 1875:1002	Nomen nudum; see Mouchezis sancti-pauli
Architeuthis nawaji Cadenat, 1935:513	Undetermined	Île d'Yeu, Bay of Biscay, France	(#110) Unresolved
Dubioteuthis physeteris Joubin, 1900:102, pl. 15	Valid species; Architeuthis physeteris	Azores (38°34'45"N 29°37'W); from sperm whale stomach	(#68) MOM Holotype [station 588]
Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875a:22	Nomen nudum
Architeuthis princeps Verrill, 1875b:79, figs. 25–27	Undetermined	a) Grand Banks, Newfoundland; b) North Atlantic (sperm whale stomach)	(#22 and 26) NMNH? [not found in collections to date]; Syntypes (a) Verrill specimen No. 1, lower beak; b) Verrill specimen No. 10, upper and lower beak)
Dinoteuthis proboscideus More, 1875a:4527	Architeuthis sp.	Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland	(#3) Unresolved
Mouchezis sancti-pauli Vélain, 1877:81, text-fig. 8	Valid species; Architeuthis sanctipauli	on beach, St. Paul Island (Template:Coord), South Indian Ocean	(#33) MNHN Holotype 3-2-658 and 3-2-659 (tentacular clubs only)
Steenstrupia stockii Kirk, 1882:286, pl. 36 figs. 2–4	Valid species; Architeuthis stockii [Architeuthid per Pfeffer (1912:2)]	Cook Strait, New Zealand	(#47) NMNZ Holotype M.125405 + M.125403
Architeuthis titan Steenstrup in Verrill, 1875b:84 [in Verrill (1881b:238, footnote)]	Nomen nudum
Architeuthis verrilli Kirk, 1882:284, pl. 36 fig. 1	Species dubium	Island Bay, Cook Strait, New Zealand	(#55) NMNZ Holotype; [see Förch (1998:89)]

Abbreviations

The following abbreviations are used in the List of giant squid table.

Oceanic sectors

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Worldwide giant squid distribution based on recovered specimens

Oceanic sectors used in the main table follow Sweeney & Roper (2001): the Atlantic Ocean is divided into sectors at the equator and 30°W, the Pacific Ocean is divided at the equator and 180°, and the Indian Ocean is defined as the range 20°E to 115°E (the Arctic and Southern Oceans are not distinguished). An additional category has been created to accommodate the handful of specimens recorded from the Mediterranean Sea.

• NEA, Northeast Atlantic Ocean
• NWA, Northwest Atlantic Ocean
• SEA, Southeast Atlantic Ocean
• SWA, Southwest Atlantic Ocean
• NEP, Northeast Pacific Ocean
• NWP, Northwest Pacific Ocean
• SEP, Southeast Pacific Ocean
• SWP, Southwest Pacific Ocean
• NIO, Northern Indian Ocean
• SIO, Southern Indian Ocean
• MED, Mediterranean Sea

Measurements

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Measuring mantle width

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Measuring beak dimensions

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Taking sucker counts

Abbreviations used for measurements and counts follow Sweeney & Roper (2001) and are based on standardised acronyms in teuthology, primarily those defined by Roper & Voss (1983), with the exception of several found in older references. Following Sweeney & Roper (2001), the somewhat non-standard EL ("entire" length) and WL ("whole" length) are used in place of the more common TL (usually total length; here tentacle length) and SL (usually standard length; here spermatophore length), respectively.

• AC, arm circumference (AC(I), AC(II), AC(III) and AC(IV) refer to measurements of specific arm pairs)
• AD, arm diameter (AD(I), AD(II), AD(III) and AD(IV) refer to measurements of specific arm pairs)
• AF, arm formula
• AL, arm length (AL(I), AL(II), AL(III) and AL(IV) refer to measurements of specific arm pairs)
• ASC, arm sucker count
• ASD, arm sucker diameter
• BAC, buccal apparatus circumference
• BAL, buccal apparatus length
• BC, body circumference (assumed to mean greatest circumference of mantle unless otherwise specified)
• BD, body diameter (assumed to mean greatest diameter of mantle)
• BL, body length (usually equivalent to mantle length, as head length is often given separately)
• CaL, carpus length
• CL, club length (usually refers to expanded portion at the apex of tentacle)
• CSC, club sucker count
• CSD, club sucker diameter (usually largest) [usually equivalent to LSD]
• CW, club width
• DC, dactylus club length
• EC, egg count
• ED, egg diameter
• EL, "entire" length (end of tentacle(s), often stretched, to posterior tip of tail; in contrast to WL, measured from end of arms to posterior tip of tail)
• EyD, eye diameter
• EyOD, eye orbit diameter
• FL, fin length
• FuCL, funnel cartilage length
• FuCW, funnel cartilage width
• FuD, funnel opening diameter
• FuL, funnel length
• FW, fin width
• GiL, gill length
• GL, gladius (pen) length
• GW, gladius (pen) width
• G(W), daily growth rate (%)
• HC, head circumference
• HeL, hectocotylus length
• HL, head length (most often base of arms to edge of mantle)
• HW, head width
• LAL, longest arm length
• LRL, lower rostral length of beak
• LSD, largest sucker diameter (on tentacle club) [usually equivalent to CSD]
• MaL, manus length
• ML, dorsal mantle length (used only where stated as such)
• MT, mantle thickness
• MW, maximum mantle width (used only where stated as such)
• NGL, nidamental gland length
• PL, penis length
• RaL, radula length
• RaW, radula width
• RL, rachis length
• RW, rachis width
• SInc, number of statolith increments
• SL, spermatophore length
• SoA, spermatophores on arms
• SSD, stalk sucker diameter
• SSL, spermatophore sac length
• TaL, tail length
• TC, tentacle circumference (most often of tentacle stalk)
• TCL, tentacle club length
• TD, tentacle diameter (most often of tentacle stalk)
• TL, tentacle length
• TSC, tentacle sucker count (club and stalk combined)
• TSD, tentacle sucker diameter (usually largest)
• URL, upper rostral length of beak
• VML, ventral mantle length
• WL, "whole" length (end of arms, often damaged, to posterior tip of tail; in contrast to EL, measured from end of tentacles to posterior tip of tail)
• WT, weight

Repositories

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Giant squid head being removed from storage at the VSM in Trondheim, Norway

Institutional acronyms follow Sweeney & Roper (2001) and are primarily those defined by Leviton et al. (1985), Leviton & Gibbs (1988), and Sabaj (2016). Where the acronym is unknown, the full repository name is listed.

• AMNH, American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, United States
• AMS, Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• BAMZ, Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo, Flatts Village, Bermuda
• BMNH, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, England (formerly British Museum (Natural History))
• CEPESMA, Museo-Aula del Mar, Coordinadora para el Estudio y la Protección de las Especies Marinas, Luarca, Spain
• EI, Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
• FOSJ, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
• ICM, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
• MCNOPM, Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Puerto Madryn (Museum of Natural Sciences and Oceanography), Puerto Madryn, Argentina
• MHNLR, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, La Rochelle, France
• MHNN, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (Musee Barla), Nice, France
• MMF, Museu Municipal do Funchal, Funchal, Madeira
• MNHN, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France
• MOM, Musée Océanographique, Monaco
• MUDB, Department of Biology, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada
• NIWA, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand
• NMI, National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Dublin, Ireland
• NMML, National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, United States
• NMNH, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
• NMNZ, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand (formerly Colonial Museum; Dominion Museum)
• NMSJ, Newfoundland Museum, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
• NMSZ, National Museum of Scotland, Zoology Department, Edinburgh, Scotland (formerly Royal Museum of Scotland; formerly Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh)
• NMV, Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (formerly National Museum of Victoria)
• NSMC, Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Canada
• PASS, Peabody Academy of Science, Salem, Massachusetts, United States (now in Peabody Museum of Salem?)
• RMNH, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands
• RSMAS, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, Miami, Florida, United States (= UMML, University of Miami Marine Lab)
• SAM, Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
• SAMA, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, Australia
• SBMNH, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, California, United States
• SMNH, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
• TMAG, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• VSM, NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Trondheim, Norway (formerly Det Kgl. Norske Videnskabers Selskab Museet)
• YPM, Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
• ZMB, Zoologisches Museum, Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
• ZMMGU, Zoological Museum, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• ZMUB, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, Norway
• ZMUC, Kobenhavns Universitet, Zoologisk Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark

Specimen images

The following images relate to pre–20th century giant squid specimens and sightings. The number below each image corresponds to that given in the List of giant squid table and is linked to the relevant record therein. The date on which the specimen was first documented is also given (the little-endian day/month/year date format is used throughout).

Notes

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Though fictional accounts often depict giant squid attacking boats (cf. #29), live animals found at the surface are almost invariably sick or dying, and no injuries resulting from such encounters have ever been documented.

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The surface encounter between a sperm whale and a giant squid supposedly witnessed by Frank Thomas Bullen, from his semi-autobiographical travel narrative The Cruise of the Cachalot, first published in 1898

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Paul Bartsch, longtime curator of molluscs at the National Museum of Natural History, believed that most reports of sea serpents were based on sightings of giant squid, particularly ones holding their tentacles above the water (see also alternative image)

References

Full citations

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• Ablett, J. (2012). The giant squid, Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): the making of an iconic specimen. NatSCA News no. 23: 16–20.
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