Octopus and squid difference pictures are as follows:
Octopus body is short ovoid, the head of the compound eye and eight can be contracted wrists; while the squid body elongated, long conical, the surface of the body with a lot of brown spots, more than the octopus two feet.
Octopus usually crawl with the wrists, sometimes by the intercarpal membrane stretching to swim, can strongly hold other things, with the lower part of the head of the funnel spraying water for rapid retreat. The base of the wrist is connected to the web-like tissue called skirt, and there is a mouth in its center. The mouth has a pair of sharp, horny palpi and a file-like toothed tongue, which is used to drill through shells and scrape their flesh.
Morphological Characteristics of Squids
The head has a pair of well-developed gills surrounding the mouth on both sides. Often active in the shallow sea in the middle and upper layers, vertical movement range of more than a hundred meters. The body is elongated and long conical, feeding on krill, sardines, silversides, small males, etc., and itself a prey for ferocious fish. Eggs mature in batches, batches of output, the eggs are wrapped in gelatinous egg sheaths, each egg sheaths with the species of different egg package a few to several hundred, different species of spawning volume also varies greatly, from a few hundred to tens of thousands.
Squid body with two gills as a respiratory organ; the body is divided into the head, a very short neck Chinese gun squid, commonly known as squid, tender meat, dried products squid, meat quality is excellent, in the domestic and foreign seafood market has a reputation, the annual output of 40,000 -50,000 tons, the main fishing grounds in the northern Gulf of Hainan, China, southern Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hebei, Bohai Bay, and Guangxi coastal waters, as well as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand! The main fishing grounds in China in the northern bay of Hainan, southern Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Hebei Bohai Bay and Guangxi offshore, as well as the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand offshore, in which the northern bay of the South China Sea, Bohai Bay squid is the best.