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''Chiroteuthis veranii'', commonly known as the long-armed squid, is a species of chiroteuthid 
squid
True squid are molluscs with an elongated soft body, large eyes, eight arms, and two tentacles in the superorder Decapodiformes, though many other molluscs within the broader Neocoleoidea are also called squid despite not strictly fitting t ...
. It grows to a mantle length of 12.5 cm and a total length of 130 cm.
The type specimen
In biology, a type is a particular wiktionary:en:specimen, specimen (or in some cases a group of specimens) of an organism to which the scientific name of that organism is formally attached. In other words, a type is an example that serves to a ...
was collected in the Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...
by Jean Baptiste Vérany
Chevalier Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800, in Nice – 1865) was a French pharmacist and naturalist who specialised in the study of cephalopods.
In 1846, with Jean-Baptiste Barla (1817–1896), he founded the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice. V ...
and is deposited at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice
The Natural History Museum of Nice ( French: ''Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Nice'') is a French natural-history museum located in Nice.
Origins
The museum was founded in 1846 by Jean Baptiste Vérany (1800–1865), a French pharmacist ...
in Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...
, France
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.
To wield its exceptionally long arms, this squid species builds up internal fluid pressure by contracting its muscles, which allows it to expel two long tentacles at a high speed in order to catch prey.
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(''Chiroteuthis veranyi lacertosa'') (''Chiroteuthis veranyi veranyi'') Squid Cephalopods described in 1835 Marine molluscs of Europe Cephalopods of Europe Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{squid-stub