Squid

Family Loliginidae

• Portuguese: Lula
• Spanish: Calamar
• French: Encornet
• Dutch: Pijlinktvis
• German: Nordischer Kalmar
• Polish: Kalmar
• Russian: Kal’mar
• Swedish: Kalmar, Bläckfisk
• Norwegian: Tiarmet blekksprut
• Danish: Tiarmet blæksprutte
• Icelandic: Smokkfiskur
• Other: Inks (a plural name used in the British fish trade)

REMARKS Maximum body length 90 cm. This species belongs to the north-east Atlantic and is the most common edible squid as far south as the British Isles. Further south, and in the Mediterranean, its place is taken by the similar Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, to which the Portuguese, Spanish and French names cited here normally apply.