List of giant squid specimens and sightings (References)

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Cited references

The following references are cited in the List of giant squid table in the columns "Cited references" and "Additional references". They include sources that provide specific data on a particular specimen (usually original descriptions), as well as later sources which merely refer to the specimen.

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• [Anonymous] 1978a. Big squid. Brookings Harbour Pilot, 32(22) (June 15, 1978), front page.
• [Anonymous] 1978b. Big squid is largest on record. Curry Coastal Pilot, July 6, 1978, p. 11.
• [Anonymous] 1996. Out of its depth. Age, Melbourne Australia, 12 June 1996.
• [Anonymous] 1999. Giant squid found dead in Bahamian waters. Soundings, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science, May 15, 1999.
• [Anonymous] 2002a. Trawler nets giant squid. BBC News 14 January 2002.
• (Japanese) [Anonymous] 2002b. "巨大イカ現れる !!" Kyoto Prefecture Web Site.
• [Anonymous] 2002c. 'New species' of giant squid found. BBC News 22 July 2002.
• [Anonymous] 2006a. News briefs from California's Central Coast. Monterey Herald, August 16, 2006.
• (Chinese) [Anonymous] 2006b. 大興號捕獲7公尺、211公斤大王魷　東港拍賣引騷動. ETtoday through Yahoo! Taiwan.
• [Anonymous] 2007a. Giant squid found on Farewell Spit. TV3, July 23, 2007.
• (Italian) [Anonymous] 2007b. Un raro calamaro gigante. Il Tirreno August 24, 2007.
• ABC Tasmania 2007. Giant Squid to be preserved. August 23, 2007.
• (Russian) Akimushkin, I.I. 1954. Cephalopod mollusks in the diet of sperm whales. Doklady Akademii Nauck, SSSR, 96(3):665-667.
• (Russian) Akimushkin, I.I. 1963. Cephalopods of the Seas of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R., Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, 235 pages, 60 figures. [English translation from Russian by Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 223 pages (pages cited above in brackets)].
• Aldrich, F.A. 1968. The distribution of giant squids (Cephalopoda, Architeuthidae) in the north Atlantic and particularly about the shores of Newfoundland. Sarsia, 34[Sep.]:393-398.
• Aldrich, F.A. 1992. Some aspects of the systematics and biology of squid of the genus Architeuthis based on a study of specimens from Newfoundland waters. Bulletin of Marine Science, 49(1-2)(1991):457-481.
• Aldrich, F.A. & M.M. Aldrich 1968. On regeneration of the tentacular arm of the giant squid Architeuthis dux Steenstrup (Decapoda, Architeuthidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 46(5):845-847.
• Aldrich, F.A. & E.L. Brown 1967. The giant squid in Newfoundland. Newfoundland Quarterly, 65(3)[Feb.]:4-8.
• Alexeyev, D.O. 1994. New data on the distribution and biology of squids from the southern Pacific. Ruthenica, 4(2):151-166, 12 figures.
• Allan, J.K. 1948. A rare giant squid. Australian Museum Magazine, 9(9)[Dec.]:306-308, 2 figures.
• ANSA 2007 Fishermen net rare giant squid. August 23, 2007.
• Antonelis, G.A., M.S. Lowry, C.H. Fiscus, B.S. Stewart & R.L. DeLong 1994. Diet of the northern elephant seal, pages 211-223. In: B.J. LeBoeuf & R.M. Laws (eds.) Elephant Seals: Population Ecology, Behavior, and Physiology. University of California Press.
• Arfelli, C.A., A.F. deAmorim & A.R.G. Tomas 1991. First record of a giant squid Architeuthis sp. Steenstrup, 1857 (Cephalopoda, Architeuthidae) in Brazilian waters. B. Inst. Pesca, 18:83-88.

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• (Danish) Bardarson, G. 1920. Om den marine molluskfauna ved vestkysten af Island. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab Biologiske Meddelelser, 2(3):1-139.
• Berry, S.S. 1912. Note on the occurrence of a giant squid off the California coast. Nautilus, 25(10):117-118.
• Berry, S.S. 1914. Another giant squid in Monterey Bay. Nautilus, 28(2):22-23.
• (French) Belloc, G. 1950. Catalogue des types de Cephalopodes du Musee Oceanographique de Monaco. Bulletin de l'Institut Oceanographique, 970:1-10.
• Belyayev, G.M. 1964. Rostra of cephalopods in oceanic bottom sediments. Deep-Sea Research, 11(1)[Jan.-Feb.]:113-126.
• Berzin, A.A. 1971. The sperm whale. Pacific Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Moscow, 1971. [English translation from Russian by E. Hoz and Z. Blake, Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972, 393 pages (pages cited in this document)].
• (Russian) Betesheva, E.I. & I.I. Akimushkin 1955. Food of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon L.) in the Kuril Islands region. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii Im P.P. Shirshova, Akademiya Nauk SSSR, 18:86-94.
• Blake, J.H. 1909. A giant squid. Nautilus, 23(3)[Jul.]:43-44.
• (French) Bouyer, M. 1861. Poulpe géant observé entre Madere et Ténériffe. Comptes rendus des séances de l'académie des sciences (Paris).
• Boyle, P.R. 1984. Giant squid stranded at Aberdeen. Porcupine Newsletter, 3(1):12.
• Boyle, P.R. 1986. Report on a specimen of Architeuthis stranded near Aberdeen, Scotland. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 52(1):81-82.
• Brinkmann, A. 1916. Kjaempeblaekspruten (Architeuthis dux Stp.) i Bergens Museum. Naturen, Illustrert Maanedsskrift for Populaer Naturvidenskap, Bergen, 40(6)[Jun.]:175-182, 3 figures.
• Brix, O. 1983. Giant squids may die when exposed to warm water currents. Nature, London, 303(5916)[Jun.]:422-423.
• Brix, O., A. Bardgard, A. Cau, A. Colosimo, S.G. Condo & B. Giardina 1989. Oxygen-binding properties of cephalopod blood with special reference to environmental temperatures and ecological distribution. Journal of Experimental Zoology, 252(1):34-42.
• Brunetti, N.E., B. Elena, G.R. Rossi, M. Sakai, S.E. Pineda & M.L. Ivanovic 1998. Description of an Architeuthis from Argentine waters. South African Journal of Marine Science, 20:xxx.
• Budker, P. 1959. Whales and Whaling. The Macmillan Co., New York, NY.

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• (French) Cadenat, J. 1935. Note sur la premiere capture dans le Golfe de Gascogne du cephalopode geant, Architeuthis nawaji. Compte-Rendu de l'Association Francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences, 59:513.
• (French) Cadenat, J. 1936. Note sur un cephalopode geant (Architeuthis harveyi Verrill) capture dans le golfe de Gascogne. Bulletin de Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, (2)8(3):277-285, 4 figures.
• Carus, J.V. 1880. Zool. Anz., 3:319. [emend. pro -thus Hilgendorf, 1880]
• Cherel, Y. 2003. New records of the giant squid Architeuthis dux in the southern Indian Ocean. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 83: 1295-1296.
• Cherel, Y. & G. Duhamel 2004. Antarctic jaws: cephalopod prey of sharks in Kerguelen waters. Deep-Sea Research I 51: 17-31.
• Clarke, M.R. 1962. Stomach contents of a sperm whale caught off Madeira in 1959. Norsk Hvalfangsttid, 51(5):173-191.
• Clarke, M.R. 1966. A review of the systematics and ecology of oceanic squids. Advances in Marine Biology, 4:91-300.
• Clarke, M.R. 1980. Cephalopoda in the diet of sperm whales of the southern hemisphere and their bearing on sperm whale biology. Discovery Reports, 37:1-324.
• Clarke, M.R. 1986. A Handbook for the Identification of Cephalopod Beaks. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 273 pages.
• Clarke, M.R. & N. MacLeod 1974. Cephalopod remains from a sperm whale caught off Vigo, Spain. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 54:959-968.
• Clarke, M.R. & N. MacLeod 1976. Cephalopod remains from sperm whales caught off Iceland. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 56:733-749.
• Clarke, M.R. & N. MacLeod 1982. Cephalopod remains from the stomachs of sperm whales caught in the Tasman Sea. Memoirs of the National Museum Victoria, 43:25-42.
• Clarke, M.R., H.R. Martins & P. Pascoe 1993. The diet of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758) off the Azores. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, ser. B, 339:67-82.
• Clarke, M.R. & N. Merrett 1972. The significance of squid, whale and other remains from the stomachs of bottom-living deep-sea fish. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 52:599-603.
• Clarke, M.R. & P.L. Pascoe 1997. Cephalopod species in the diet of a sperm whale (Physeter catodon) stranded at Penzance, Cornwall. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 77:1255-1258.
• Clarke, M.R. & R.E. Young 1998. Description and analysis of cephalopod beaks from stomachs of six species of odontocete cetaceans stranded on Hawaiian shores. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 78:623-641.
• Clarke, R. 1955. A giant squid swallowed by a sperm whale. Norwegian Whaling Gazette, 1955(10):589-593, 6 figures.
• Clarke, R. 1956. Sperm whales of the Azores. Discovery Report, 28:237-298, 18 text-figures, 2 plates.
• Clarke, W.J. & G.C. Robson 1929. Notes on the stranding of giant squids on the North-East coast of England. Proceedings of the Malacological Society, 18(4):154-158, map.
• Collet, R. 1911-1912. Norges Pattedyr. H. Aschehoug & Co., Kristiania, 744 pages.
• Collins, M.A. 1998. A female giant squid (Architeuthis) stranded on the Aberdeenshire coast. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 64(4):489-492), 1 figure.
• Collins, M.A., C. Lordan, K. Flannery, D.T.G. Quigley & F.G. Howard 1997. New records of cephalopods caught in Irish and Scottish waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association, UK, 77:561-564.
• Compagno-Roeleveld, M.A. & M.R. Lipinski 1991. The giant squid Architeuthis in southern African waters. Journal of Zoology, London, 224(3):431-477, 19 plates.
• (French) Crosse, H. & P. Fischer 1862. Nouveau documents sur les cephalopodes gigantesque. Journal de Conchyliologie, 10[Apr.]:124-140.

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• Deagle, B.E., S.N. Jarman, D. Pemberton & N.J. Gales 2005. Genetic Screening for Prey in the Gut Contents from a Giant Squid (Architeuthis sp.). Journal of Heredity, 96(4): 417-423. doi:10.1093/jhered/esi036
• Dell, R.K. 1952. The Recent Cephalopoda of New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin, 16:x.
• Dell, R.K. 1970. A specimen of the giant squid Architeuthis from New Zealand. Records of the Dominion Museum, 7(4):25-36.
• (Chinese) Dong, Z. 1984. Food and feeding habits of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon Linnaeus). Journal of Fisheries of China, 8(4)[Dec.]:327-332, 5 figures.
• Dunning, M. 1998. A review of the systematics, distribution and biology of the arrow squid genera Ommastrephes Orbigny, 1835, Sthenoteuthis Verrill, 1880, and Ornithoteuthis Okada, 1927 (Cephalopoda, Ommastrephidae), pp. 425-433. In: N.A. Voss, M. Vecchione, R.B. Toll & M.J. Sweeney (Eds.) Systematics and Biogeography of Cephalopods. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 586(I-II), 599 pages.
• Dunning, M.C., M.R. Clarke & C.C. Lu 1993. Cephalopods in the diet of oceanic sharks caught off eastern Australia, pages 119-131. In: T. Okutani, R.K. O'Dor and T. Kubodera (eds.) Recent Advances in Fisheries Biology, Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 752 pages.
• Dyson, J. 1982. Mysterious Monster From the Deep. Reader's Digest [Nov. 1982]: 107-114.

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• Ellis, R. 1997. The hunt for the giant squid moves to deep waters off New Zealand. Marine Watch, 2(1):1, 9-10, 12-13, 4 figures.
• Ellis, R. 1998. The Search for the Giant Squid. The Lyons Press, 322 pages.

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• Fiscus, C.W. & D.W. Rice 1974. Giant squids, Architeuthis sp., from stomachs of sperm whales captured off California. California Fish and Game, 60(2):91-93, 1 figure.
• Fiscus, C.W., D.W. Rice & A.A. Wolman 1989. Cephalopods from the stomachs of sperm whales taken off California. NOAA Technical Report, NMFS 83:1-12.
• Forch, E.C. 1983. New Plymouth's giant squid. Catch '83, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington, 10(10)[Oct.]:6-7, 1 figure.
• Forch, E.C. 1984. Giant squid still a mystery. Catch '84, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Wellington, 11(11)[Dec.]:19, 1 figure.
• Forch, E.C. 1998. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Cephalopoda; Oegopsida; Architeuthidae (Giant squid). NIWA Biodiversity memoir 110: 113 pages, 28 figures.
• Frost, N. 1934. Notes on a giant squid (Architeuthis sp.) captured at Dildo, Newfoundland, in December, 1933. Annual Report of the Newfoundland Fishery Research Commission for 1933, 2(2):100-113, 5 figures, 2 plates.
• Frost, N. 1936. A further species of giant squid (Architeuthis sp.) from Newfoundland waters. Annual Report of the Newfoundland Fishery Research Commission for 1935, 2(5):89-95, 10 figs.

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• Gannon, E. 1996. Monster catch from the depths. Herald-Sun Newspaper, Melbourne, Australia, 11 June 1996.
• Gaskin, D.E. & M.W. Cawthorn 1967. Diet and feeding habits of the sperm whale (Physeter catodon L.) in the Cook Strait region of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1(2)[Jun.]:156-179.
• Gauldie, R.W., I.F. West & E.C. Forch 1994. Statocyst, statolith, and age estimation of the giant squid, Architeuthis kirki. Veliger, 37(1):93-109.
• (French) Gervais, P. 1875. Remarques au sujet des grands cephalopodes decabrachides constituant le genre Architeuthis. Journal de Zoologie, 4(2)[]:88-97.
• (French) Girard, A.A. 1892. Les cephalopodes des Iles Acores et de l'Ile de Madere. Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas, Physicas e Naturaes, Lisboa, (ser. 2)2(7)[May]:210-220, 2 plates.
• Gittenberger, E. 1980. [On some photos.] Correspondentieblad van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging, 192:986-988.
• González, M., M. Fernández-Casado, M.d.P. Rodríguez, A. Segura & J.J. Martín 2000. First record of the giant squid Architeuthis sp. (Architeuthidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 80: 745-746.
• González, Á.F., Á. Guerra, F. Rocha & J. Garcia 2002. Recent findings of the giant squid Architeuthis in northern Spanish waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 82:859-861.
• Grieg, J.A. 1933. Cephalopods from the west coast of Norway. Bergens Museum Aarbog, Naturvidenskapelig rekke, 1933(4)[Sep.]:1-25, 4 plates.
• Grønningsaeter, A. 1946. Sjørmen-blekksprutten. Naturen, 70(12):379-380.
• Guerra, Á., Á.F. González & F. Rocha 2004. A review of the records of giant squid in the north-eastern Atlantic and severe injuries in Architeuthis dux stranded after acoustic explorations. ICES Annual Science Conference 22–25 September 2004, Vigo, Spain.
• Guerra, Á., Á.F. González, E.G. Dawe & F. Rocha 2004. Records of giant squid in the north-eastern Atlantic, and two records of male Architeuthis sp. off the Iberian Peninsula. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK, 84: 427–431. doi:10.1017/S0025315404009397h
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• (Japanese) Hamabe, M. 1957. A giant squid collected at Kuniga, Oki Islands. Nihonkai Suisan Shiken Kenyu Rebrajy Btysym, 82:3.
• Hamilton, J.E. 1915. Belmullet Whaling Station. Report to the Committee. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1914:125-161.
• Hardy, A.C. 1956. The Open Sea: Its Natural History. Part I: The World of Plankton. Houghton Mifflin, 335 pages.
• (French) Harting, P. 1860. Description de quelques fragments de deux cephalopodes gigantesques. Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam, 9(1)[1861]: 16 pages, 3 plates. [Published separately, 1860; Publiees par l'Academie Royale des Sciences a Amsterdam]
• Harvey, M. 1874. Gigantic cuttlefishes of Newfoundland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, (ser. 4)13(73)[Jan.]:67-69.
• Heppell, D. 1978. Giant squid stranded at North Berwick. Conchologists' Newsletter, 65[Jun.]:89.
• Heppell, D. & S.M. Smith 1983. Recent Cephalopoda in the collections of the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Royal Scottish Museum Information Series, Natural History, 10[Mar.]:1-81.
• Hess, S.C. & R.B. Toll 1981. Methodology for specific diagnosis of cephalopod remains in stomach contents of predators with reference to the broadbill swordfish, Xiphias gladius. Journal of Shellfish Research, 1(2):161-170.
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• Iwai, E. 1956. Descriptions on unidentified species of dibranchiate cephalopods. I. An oegopsiden squid belonging to the genus Architeuthis. Scientific Reports of the Whales Research Institute, Tokyo, 11[Jun.]:139-151, 1 text-figure, 5 plates.

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• Jackson, G.D., C.C. Lu & M. Dunning 1991. Growth rings within the statolith microstructure of the giant squid Architeuthis. Veliger, 34(3)[Oct.]:331-334.
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The following sources were directly used to compile the List of giant squid.

• [Anonymous] 2002a. Trawler nets giant squid. BBC News 14 January 2002.
• (Japanese) [Anonymous] 2002b. "巨大イカ現れる !!" Kyoto Prefecture Web Site.
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• (Chinese) [Anonymous] 2006b. 大興號捕獲7公尺、211公斤大王魷　東港拍賣引騷動. ETtoday through Yahoo! Taiwan.
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• (Italian) [Anonymous] 2007b. Un raro calamaro gigante. Il Tirreno August 24, 2007.
• ABC Tasmania 2007. Giant Squid to be preserved. August 23, 2007.
• ANSA 2007 Fishermen net rare giant squid. August 23, 2007.
• Cherel, Y. 2003. New records of the giant squid Architeuthis dux in the southern Indian Ocean.PDF (49.5 KiB) J. Mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 83: 1295-1296.
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• Ellis, R. 1998. The Search for the Giant Squid. The Lyons Press, pp. 257-265.
• Guerra, Á., Á.F. González & F. Rocha 2004. A review of the records of giant squid in the north-eastern Atlantic and severe injuries in Architeuthis dux stranded after acoustic explorations.PDF (1.63 MiB) ICES Annual Science Conference 22–25 September 2004, Vigo, Spain.
• (Spanish) Guerra, Á., Á.F. González, F. Rocha, J. Gracia & L. Laria 2006. Enigmas de la Ciencia: El Calamar Gigante. CEPESMA, Vigo, Spain.
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• Kubodera, T. & K. Mori 2005. First-ever observations of a live giant squid in the wild.PDF (641 KiB) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1581):2583-2586.
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• Sweeney, M.J. & C.F.E. Roper 2001. Records of Architeuthis Specimens from Published Reports.PDF (286 KiB) National Museum of Natural History. Smithsonian Institution. 132 pp.
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• United Press International 2007. Giant squid caught off Italian coast. August 23, 2007.
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