They were captured by the museumS marine biology team at the entrance to the A Coruña estuary.
01 December 2024 . Updated at 7.58pm
The cylindrical tank The Great Hall of Finisterre Aquarium it’s the new home of twenty truly unique calamari of the variety Loligo vulgariscaptured by the aquarium’s marine biology team at the entrance to the La Coruña estuary, in the area between La Guisanda and the port of Oza. The presence of schools of sardines in the area, one of the main foods of squid, has made it possible to capture them, taking advantage of an increase in their presence.
Once captured and transferred to the Aquarium, they were kept in a tank in the quarantine area, where they quickly adapted, and then they were brought into the cylindrical tank where the public can observe them. “We are very satisfied with the work carried out by the museum wich receives the greatest number of visitors and which continues to improve in contents and structures, as evidenced by the work carried out in the seal sanatorium”, said Gonzalo Castro, councilor for Culture and Tourism.
The squid, Loligo vulgarisit’s a Cephalopod mollusk distributed in the eastern Atlanticfrom the North Sea and the British Isles to south-west Africa and the Mediterranean,at depths up to 500 metres. They feed on fish and crustaceans, and adult specimens they have a size between 12 and 48 centimeters in the case of males and from 16 to 40 centimeters in the case of females. They live on average for a year.
One of its most notable features is its ability to change colorwhich they achieve thanks to the existence of specialized organs in their mantle, the chromatophores. These color changes allow them to camouflage themselves from prey and predators and also serve as a means of interaction with each other. Another curiosity about them is that they have three hearts, one to pump blood throughout the body and two for the gills.
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